[PATCH setxkbmap] Eliminate limitations on path length.

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 02/17/11 04:36 PM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:28:19PM +0300, Van de Bugger wrote:
>> Thus, I want my keyboard stuff to be located in a place of my choice.
>> Probably, I like very-very-very-long directory and file names, and my
>> names are not in Latin alphabet, so 1024 bytes may actually mean just
>> 512 characters or even lesser.
>>
>> Thus, please stop thinking the people not like you are idiots and let us
>> fix the idiot limit.
> 
> This is probably the most unproductive mail I've seen in ... well, OK,
> it's just very unproductive.
> 
> Stick to the technical issues -- if you have a solid patch to send it
> that will actually allow you to open paths longer than PATH_MAX on an
> actual real system -- and leave the name-calling out completely.

Sorry, my fault for suggesting that people who wanted long paths were
being idiots, though I still think it's a limit that will be hit so
few times that it's not worth a lot of effort worrying about.

Certainly in more general purpose code, allocating dynamically sized
buffers makes sense, but setxkbmap is very limited in the paths it
needs to deal with.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System