Ondrej Valousek wrote: > Well, what if we try to create a decently sized stack buffer (say 256 chars) > - in 99% we fit into that buffer (actually I can't image we would ever need > more), and if we do not fit into that buffer we just return 1
This would mean, a program behaves incorrectly just because some file name is particularly long. We don't do such things in GNU. The GNU Coding Standards [1] are clear about it: "Avoid arbitrary limits on the length or number of any data structure, including file names, lines, files, and symbols, by allocating all data structures dynamically." Bruno [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Semantics.html
