tmpdir: Use a good default directory on native Windows.

[gnulib.git] / lib / canonicalize.c

diff --git a/lib/canonicalize.c b/lib/canonicalize.c
index 18acd06..4fe9f30 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/canonicalize.c
+++ b/lib/canonicalize.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Return the canonical absolute name of a given file.
-   Copyright (C) 1996-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1996-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
 #include "xalloc.h"
 #include "xgetcwd.h"
 
+/* In this file, we cannot handle file names longer than PATH_MAX.
+   On systems with no file name length limit, use a fallback.  */
+#ifndef PATH_MAX
+# define PATH_MAX 8192
+#endif
+
 #ifndef DOUBLE_SLASH_IS_DISTINCT_ROOT
 # define DOUBLE_SLASH_IS_DISTINCT_ROOT 0
 #endif