[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] fix for unconditional use of PATH_MAX

Alban Bedel albeu at free.fr
Fri May 2 23:12:24 CEST 2003


Hi Robert Millan,

on Fri, 2 May 2003 22:33:43 +0200 you wrote:

> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:44:23AM +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> > Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > > ok. if using dynamic allocation only is ok to you, then do that
> > > and let's leave it here.
> > 
> > Well, feel free to submit a patch, but it does not seem like any of
> > the other developers care about such long paths, me included.
> 
> I'm not sure what kind of solution is ok to you. if you want a patch
> that enables dynamic allocation for all systems, i'll send that. but
> if you don't care about long paths as you said i can send a
> non-disruptive patch that only enables dynamic allocation when PATH_MAX
> is undefined.

If you care to send a patch then use only dynamic alloc. As we said we
think that in such case it's not worth the #ifdef stuff when there is
a solution wich work everywhere.
	Albeu



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