> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomas Hozza [mailto:tho...@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 9:53 AM
> To: Olaf Hering
> Cc: gre...@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> de...@linuxdriverproject.org; a...@canonical.com; jasow...@redhat.com; KY
> Srinivasan
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Tools: hv: Fix for long file names from readdir
> 
> > > -        char dev_id[256];
> > > +        char dev_id[512];
> >
> > Shouldnt that be PATH_MAX or similar?
> 
> dirent->d_name should be PATH_MAX, but it is mostly
> not guaranteed. And then the dev_id is concatenated
> with two strings so it can exceed 256 bytes.

PATH_MAX (currently 4096 bytes) I think should suffice.

Regards,

K. Y

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