[GRASS-dev] Maximum safe map name size?

2010-06-30 Thread Joel Pitt
Hi all, So I've been getting into all sorts of strife with hard-coded limits on filename lengths in GRASS. Not hard-coded in a sense that they are enforced (that wouldn't be an issue, because then I'd know about it!), but in the sense that there are all these fixed buffer limits in modules which d

Re: [GRASS-dev] Maximum safe map name size?

2010-07-02 Thread Hamish
Hi Joel, [sorry about yahoo's broken linewrap..] Joel Pitt wrote: > So I've been getting into all sorts of strife with > hard-coded limits > on filename lengths in GRASS. Not hard-coded in a sense > that they are > enforced (that wouldn't be an issue, because then I'd know > about it!), > but in

Re: [GRASS-dev] Maximum safe map name size?

2010-07-02 Thread Glynn Clements
Hamish wrote: > as you found, on top of that, grass 6 titles (cats+hist) are > going to be limited to RECORD_LEN chars. an update of the meta- > data backend remains a major TODO for grass 7. FWIW, I've re-written this in r42695. The fields of "struct History" are now dynamically allocated, rat

Re: [GRASS-dev] Maximum safe map name size?

2010-07-03 Thread Hamish
> Hamish wrote: > > as you found, on top of that, grass 6 titles (cats+hist) are > > going to be limited to RECORD_LEN chars. an update of the meta- > > data backend remains a major TODO for grass 7. Glynn: > FWIW, I've re-written this in r42695. > > The fields of "struct History" are now dynamica

Re: [GRASS-dev] Maximum safe map name size?

2010-07-05 Thread Joel Pitt
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Hamish wrote: >> Hamish wrote: >> > as you found, on top of that, grass 6 titles (cats+hist) are >> > going to be limited to RECORD_LEN chars. an update of the meta- >> > data backend remains a major TODO for grass 7. > Glynn: >> FWIW, I've re-written this in r42695