From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20494 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2000 07:38:53 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Aug 2000 07:38:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 27379 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2000 07:38:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12523 Received: (qmail 27372 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2000 07:38:42 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1000804073838.ZM28423@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 07:38:38 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1000804071658.ZM23782@candle.brasslantern.com> Comments: In reply to "Bart Schaefer" "Re: PATCH: Re: completion problem with filename including # (and pathmax stuff)" (Aug 4, 7:16am) References: <200008040701.JAA23407@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> <1000804071658.ZM23782@candle.brasslantern.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: completion problem with filename including # (and pathmax stuff) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Aug 4, 7:16am, Bart Schaefer wrote: } Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: completion problem with filename including # (and } } One, we could pitch out the path length test and simply let domkdir() } fail -- and perhaps test the value of errno to decide whether to break } or continue as a result. Sorry, that doesn't work if the goal is that no directories in the path get created if the whole path can't be created. So that leaves us to dig around for a max path length. I suspect the True64 pathconf() is actually broken in this respect, Sven. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net