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On Sat Jan 28 06:22:08 2012, dom wrote: > The attached patch addresses a problem reported as > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656869> where, even > though no limit is defined in GNU/Hurd, MAXPATHLEN is limited to 1024. > > Increasing this to 4096 creates parity between GNU/Hurd and > GNU/Linux. I'd be interested in opinions about whether this is sensible > to apply. I’m not an expert in this area (in fact, I’m not an expert in any OS interaction), but as an outsider, if you will, I must ask: What happens if MAXPATHLEN is set to a number larger than the system supports? Would that result in a buffer overrun, or merely an unnecessarily large allocation? -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=109262Thread Next