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Re: Bug in path.cc (conv_path_list_buf_size)


On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:02:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:40:21PM +0100, Daniel Steinmann wrote:
>>The above mentioned function returns sometimes a too small buffer
>>size. This problem was found when using 'cygpath --path --windows'
>>
>>I see following solutions:
>>
>>a) Increase the slop.
>>
>>b) Make the size estimation more precise by adding the size of
>>   the current working directory for each relativ path element.
>>
>>What do you think?
>
>I'll add something which should suffice to work around the problem for
>1.3.20.

There is a new snapshot up with the change, if you want to try it.

cgf

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