show_dir crashes on more than 200 columns

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Wed Nov 3 14:05:27 UTC 2004


Hi Pavel,

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 12:50, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> No, it is not. You cannot rely on MC_MAXPATHLEN - it can be too small or
> too big. For exmaple on Cygwin it is set to 259 . I remeber I've seen
> also pretty big values for MAXPATHLEN which are not suitable for
> allocating on the stack. Use the `widget.cols' and allocate memory from
> the heap.

Ok. Restored to original code from Jindrich. See attached patch.

Leonard.

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