On 10/24/07, Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Two questions:
> - Is it really intended to perhaps change release_agent_path[] to have
> less than PATH_MAX size?
I've got no intention to do so currently.
> - If yes, do you want to return -E2BIG for (nbytes >= PATH_MAX) or for
> (nbytes >= sizeof(root->release_agent_path)) ?
I think E2BIG for the former for backwards compatabilty; the latter
could be either ENOSPC or E2BIG; i.e. both checks are useful - one to
stop us allocating more memory than is sensible, and one to stop us
overrunning the buffer; the fact that these two are the same size at
the moment is coincidence.
I guess ideally the first check would be for the max() of any of the
data structures that we expect to be able to write over; PATH_MAX was
just picked as a convenience.
Paul
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