From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10849 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2000 01:11:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Sep 2000 01:11:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 3385 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2000 01:10:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12816 Received: (qmail 3378 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2000 01:10:54 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1000917011049.ZM18715@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:10:48 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1000917004721.ZM18698@candle.brasslantern.com> Comments: In reply to "Bart Schaefer" "Re: PATCH: zasprintf" (Sep 17, 12:47am) References: <20000916145333.A29559@dman.com> <1000917004721.ZM18698@candle.brasslantern.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: PATH_MAX again MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sep 17, 12:47am, Bart Schaefer wrote: } } 1) Feeping or issuing an error message when a string that might be a } path name is "too long," even though that string isn't immediately } going to be copied into a buffer or even used as a pathname. In } most of these cases I think we could just drop the test entirely. Along those lines, does anyone know what the test of if (sbptr == PATH_MAX) { feep = 1; continue; } in zle_hist.c:doisearch() is intended to accomplish? -- 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