On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 16:59 +0100, Paul Martin wrote:
> I've applied a patch to config.c when uploading 3.7.9-1 to Debian
> experimental.  Your patch to logrotate.c either leaks memory horribly
> or has zero effect.
> 
> I hope you can supply a patch against 3.7.9-1 which addresses these
> concerns.
> 
> A quick and dirty fix would, of course, be
> 
> #ifndef PATH_MAX
> #define PATH_MAX 4096
> #endif
> 
> Incidentally, PATH_MAX is in the POSIX specifications (defined by
> <limits.h>).  I am *most* surprised to find that Hurd is not a POSIX
> conformant *nix.

I hope is has zero effect, in case you are in doubt check with valgrind
on GNU/Linux. It has been approved by the GNU/Hurd people, and applied
upstream. It fixes an FTBFS on GNU/Hurd. An defining PATH_PAX is not a
solution, see for example
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/maxpath.html






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