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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:01:57PM -0800, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote: > On Mon Jan 30 14:44:05 2012, dom wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:39:39PM -0800, Mark Overmeer via RT wrote: > > > * Dominic Hargreaves (dom@earth.li) [120129 18:55]: > > > > PATH_MAX. I'm not sure I want to be the one who enables that in perl, > > > > even if it theoretically correct. > > > > > > It's not "in Perl", but only "in glob" (at least the bug report) > > > Whether (for instance) chown can handle long path or not is an > > > other thing. > > > > That's pretty much my point. Increasing the fallback value is a quick > > win for GNU/Hurd users, without risking breaking other parts of the > > system. > > > > I think that’s a good enough argument for this small change. I’ve > applied it as ffa23acf6b. Thank you. Unfortunately, and rather embarrassingly, I only just[1] received the mail[2] sent on Sunday pointing out that that fix isn't sufficient. Mea culpa for not verifying the fix properly :( It's likely, therefore, that another commit will be needed, once we've figured out what makes sense. Dominic. [1] Debian infrastructure problems [2] <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656869#16> -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)Thread Previous | Thread Next