From: Duy Nguyen Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 09:02:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/21] path.c: avoid PATH_MAX as buffer size from get_pathname() Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <52AD69D4.30605@web.de> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > If we really want to go away from PATH_MAX, is a hard-coded value of 4096 so attractive ? > Because we can either > > a) Re-define PATH_MAX in git-compat-util.h > b) Use an own #define in git-compat-util.h, like e.g. GIT_PATH_MAX > c) Change the code to use a "strbuf" which can grow on demand. > > I would prefer c) over b) over a) Looking at the code again, c) looks feasible after updating git_snpath() to accept a strbuf instead of buffer/size pair. -- Duy