Re: [MiNT] change of max. allowed path

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@boerde.de>]

Hello!

> I observed it by hunting for bugs in Teradesk - I used for testing mxPlay,
> i.e. I drag&dropped or started via VA-START some file, I've seen it in
> playlist window correctly (and I verified it's stored correctly - internal
> buffers are set for 1024 characters path and 255 characters filename) but
> when comes to loading that file, I kill both teradesk and mxplay.
>
> Concretely, the crash appears in stat() function. But maybe I'm wrong, this
> thing (max. allowed path for 128 chars) seems to me as the most logical
> reason.

In mintlib? Is this a recent mintlib version? Today an application should 
not rely on MAX_PATH and should use dynamic allocation (modern filesystems 
don't have a path limit). With other words, changing MAX_PATH don't solve 
the problem. You still have it (just a little bit less).


Regards,
Frank

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