Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 19:20:20 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Alexander Bokovoy <bokovoy AT bspu DOT ac DOT by>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in GCC 2.8.0? MAXFILE is equal 9 while LFN are supported
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On Mon, 25 May 1998, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:

> I  found that constant MAXFILE defined in dir.h is equal 9 which means
> that  buffer  for  file name generated by fnsplit() must be at least 8
> symbols  length.  But DJGPP's libc support long file names (LFN) up to
> 260  symbols  length  and  in  such case buffer must be greater than 8
> symbols  to  proper  file name handling. It means that every time when
> fnsplit() proceed with file name longer than 8 symbols the result will
> be undefined.

I understand that this is a bug in the example only, because the rest of 
the code doesn't depend on MAXFILE.  Is that what you are telling, or is 
there any additional problems with the function itself?