Re: [PATCH 09/19] tree-diff.c: reserve space in "base" for pathname concatenation

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 14, 2010, 07:10 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTintP4dMbJnterPBpWUJY77_JdmHJd+PWmKzzfuJ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvd2wvs0m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> All paths should not exceed PATH_MAX, right?
>
> Your PATH_MAX may be a lot shorter than the PATH_MAX on the system I
> created my trees on that you are reading.  Besides, you can create
> arbitrarily deep tree structure without busting the limit on the
> filesystem by writing tree objects by hand.
>
> In other words, all paths shouldn't exceed PATH_MAX, but the responsiblity
> to verify that is _yours_.

OK. I can check and die if any path exceeds PATH_MAX.

-- 
Duy

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