Re: Path length in GEM file selector

[haebler@uni-muenster.de]

> In <9401201204.AA13974@urix6.uni-muenster.de>, Marcus Haebler wrote:
> 
> Since P1003.1 does not define a maximum length for a path, no application
> should assume that there is one. You'll have to use something more
> flexible than a compile time constant.
> 
> Here is an example with getcwd() :
...
Quite nice but how does the file selector know the length of the
space the program saved for the path??

Uli's idea with the cookie is really good. What about a cookie

_PTL <max length of path without the \0 at the end like strlen()>

Eric what do you think about this? Any comments or suggestions?
We should also install a cookie for the file name size:

_FTL <max length of file name without \0>>

Regards,

Marcus
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