Re: [bug #55449] Use FILENAME_MAX in maxfilename.cpp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 01:23:34 +0100
> From: Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden>
> 
>  |For platforms which don't have the Posix pathconf, maxfilename.cpp \
>  |should try
>  |harder, and look at (the ANSI-standard) FILENAME_MAX in addition to \
>  |the other
>  |varieties.  Right now, it decides that NAME_MAX is 14 on MS-Windows, \
>  |which of
>  |course makes no sense.  One adverse effect of this is that temporary file
>  |names don't get the "groff" prefix, for no good reason.
> 
> Let me be plain one time.  The entire stuff that came in for
> Windows polluted the code enormously.

I think FILENAME_MAX is Standard ANSI C symbol, so it can/should be
used for any platform.  And anyway, none of the convoluted code in
maxfilename.cpp seems to be for Windows, so I don't think those
complications are "Windows pollution" of any kind.

The patch I propose to fix this is very simple:

--- src/libs/libgroff/maxfilename.cpp~0 2018-10-11 00:44:56.000000000 +0300
+++ src/libs/libgroff/maxfilename.cpp   2019-01-12 09:02:01.119500000 +0200
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@
 
 #else /* not _POSIX_VERSION */
 
+#include <stdio.h>
+#ifdef FILENAME_MAX
+# define NAME_MAX FILENAME_MAX
+#endif
+
 #ifdef HAVE_DIRENT_H
 #include <dirent.h>
 #else /* not HAVE_DIRENT_H */

That's it!  And it should work for any supported platform, because
FILENAME_MAX is ANSI C89.  And since I don't know what all the rest of
#ifdef's is about, you can simply delete it if it's supposed to be for
MS-Windows.

> That thing you say, and there is also PATH_MAX

That's a separate issue, in a separate file maxpathname.cpp.  Since
Windows does define PATH_MAX, then again, the convoluted set of
#ifdef's there is not for MS-Windows, AFAIU.