[vorbis-dev] win32 question

[Jeff Squyres]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, berk wrote:

> Well, DJGPP does :) But mingw32 doesn't. So at least one win32
> compiler does NOT have it already.

I don't even know what DJGPP and mingw32 are -- I assume those are windows
compilers.  :-)

> Isn't it better to do
>
> #ifdef win32
> #define PATHNAME_MAX NAME_MAX  // it was called PATHNAME_MAX IIRC
> #else
> //nothing to do
> #endif

The source code for ogg123.c uses NAME_MAX.  I quoted POSIX about the use
of NAME_MAX in an earlier post.  See
http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200101/0380.html.

Also, there are POSIX systems that do not have NAME_MAX because it is not
accurate.  For example, neither NAME_MAX nor PATHNAME_MAX are defined on
Solaris.

The fact of the matter is that different filesystems have different
maximum filename lengths.  That's what pathconf() is for -- you give it a
path and it gives you the maximum filename length on that filesystem.

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This discussion could be avoided with the rationale that it would be
really silly to have a $HOME that is so long that you can't have a file
named ".ogg123rc" in it.  Hence, (strlen(homedir) + 11) is most likely
going to be less than whatever the max is for that filesystem.  And if it
isn't, the user has such a bozoed system that they shouldn't be using
ogg123, anyway.  :-)

{+} Jeff Squyres
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