liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg) writes:

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>It wouldn't even compile.

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>char buff[get_max_name_len()];

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>is not a legal C declaration.

     No, but you could easily have a shell script create (or update, via sed)
a header file in /usr/include that contains the max filename length for that
system..  Of course, this wouldn't work for precompiled stuff, but would
kick in anytime something was compiled.

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