Re: How to deal with long pathnames in Cocoa ?

FROM : Ondra Cada
DATE : Wed Jan 16 20:25:33 2002

Lance,

>>>>>> Lance Bland (LB) wrote at Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:17:45 -0500:
LB> >Do please file a bugreport.
LB>
LB> Look at the file /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h
LB>
LB> and this line:
LB>
LB> #define PATH_MAX                1024  /* max bytes in pathname */
LB>
LB> and you will understand.

Nope. The bug is not in the fact that longer paths are not valid -- that's 
quite all right --, but in the fact that if one tries to use them from the 
GUI it crashes the current application! That is unacceptable: the code should 
raise a decent exception (to be catched, at the very worst, at the main app 
event loop level), and NEVER EVER crash!
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