Re: PATH_MAX and LOGIN_NAME_MAX are not portable

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Hi,

Le 09/08/2025 à 20:41, Jessica Clarke a écrit :
> Why on earth do you need to pull in a whole garbage collector?

This was just a first proposal...

> Just call free before returning.

...which I did in a second proposal (but this is more intrusive and 
error-prone IMHO), as part of an upstream discussion:

  https://github.com/hboetes/mg/pull/35

Upstream eventually settled on setting the missing constants, avoiding 
dynamic allocation and applied the following patch:

https://github.com/hboetes/mg/commit/cc5b2be116ba271788ed8ee1b838cff3e5b4ce53.patch


Cheers,

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Stéphane