Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

[Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:58:36AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > 
> > > I would prefer to change PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN to an arbitrary big
> > > value as, e. g. the same as on Linux, 4096, or even the biggest possible
> > > plus one: 32768.  The latter is probably the better value.  So my choice
> > > is a)
> > 
> > Ok. What should we set CYG_MAX_PATH to initially then? I think we should
> > start at 4K, until we've seen whether there are any stack size issues.
> 
> I think we should get rid of static buffers in most cases.  Some of them
> might be kept in place, returning to MAX_PATH, the others should use
> another technique, like alloca.  As I see it, CYG_MAX_PATH should be just
> a temporary measure.

"Stack issues", not static buffers - or did you mean 'stack' buffers?

Anyway, yes, we should tune each individual thing to an appropriate
strategy - self managing objects, alloc etc.

However, CYG_MAX_PATH is simply decoupling the win32 ANSI path limit
from our internal path limit. If and when we don't have an effective
internal limit anymore, sure it can go.

Rob

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