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From: gwyn@BRL.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: Query about <dirent.h>
Message-ID: <442@longway.TIC.COM>
Date: 24 Nov 89 19:06:41 GMT
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From: gwyn@BRL.MIL

In article <441@longway.TIC.COM> Andy Tanenbaum <uunet!cs.vu.nl!ast> writes:
->	char	d_name[1];
-What happens when a program allocates a struct dirent in a program?  The
-compiler will not allocate enough storage and it will crash when used.

That's what happens when programmers assume things that are not promised
by the standards.

-Is it legal to add a line
-#include <limits.h> 
-in <dirent.h>?

NO.

Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 70