Re: Minor patch to correct buffer overrun

> From: Paul Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:04:51 -0400
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 11:13 -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> > No, I didn't explain things well.  MAX_PATH on windows should be 259.
> 
> Hm.  I think the entire MAXPATHLEN thing is something that needs to be
> cleaned up.
> 
> I think a better idea would be to use the POSIX standard value of
> PATH_MAX, everywhere in the code.
> 
> Then on systems that don't support PATH_MAX we can try to find an
> appropriate value elsewhere, such as MAXPATHLEN or whatever, but that
> would be all contained in one place (make.h I expect) then a consistent
> value would be used everywhere.

FWIW, both MinGW and DJGPP (a.k.a. DOS) builds support PATH_MAX in
their respective <limits.h> header files.

I agree with using PATH_MAX, because it is more standard.