Re: Question about a small change

On Fri,  4 Nov 2016 at 23:15:21 -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
> Hello. I have a question about line 3098 from file src/defaults.c in
> Window Maker 0.95.7. Why is the number 40 chosen for the maximum length
> of the path to the 'wmsetbg' binary? I would to increase the number of
> characters allowed by 67 to get good behavior from 'wmsetbg' in the
> Window Maker package for Guix (we have unusally long paths to our
> binaries). Raising the value of variable "len" seems safe,
> but I want to be sure.

I haven't read the code very carefully but it looks there's no
strong reason for choosing '40', it seems arbitrary.

Have you actually run into a crash that disappears once you
increase that number?


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