[rrd-developers] RFC: [PATCH] Portability by avoiding PATH_MAX

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Svante

Today Svante Signell wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 08:36 +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > Today Svante Signell wrote:
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> > > > > > I did run tests/alltest and tests/tune1,tune2. All tests were OK.
> > > > > > Anything else to try to find out if the patches are OK? Anything I can
> > > > > > apply with valgrind, the tests are all shell scripts. Of course set -x
> > > > > > etc, will work.
> >
> > just send a pull request ... there is no other magic at my disposal
> > atm.
>
> How to create a pull request? I have created a branch, but the patches
> are not yet committed to that branch.

https://github.com/tiimgreen/github-cheat-sheet

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> > you could try to add explicit tests that fail without the patch and
> > work with the patch ...
>
> Well, the PATH_MAX patches affect all architectures, but without them
> rrdtool FTBFS for Hurd. For other architectures, like Linux, the code
> should work the same. With the patches memory is allocated on the heap,
> without on the stack. There should be no memory leaks in either case.

ok :-) that might be a bit tricky

cheers
tobi

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