From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:10:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/19] tree-diff.c: reserve space in "base" for pathname concatenation
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:
> 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