On Jun 18, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> The PATH_MAX usage in lib/urldata.h still breaks builds and I
> hesitate to release until we have this sorted.

Really, ok. It is used elsewhere in the system, but I was the first
to add it to the .h

>
> Also, I've taken a look at this and I think we should reconsider
> the use of this define:
>
> It is by default set to 4096 on many systems, and having two
> variables of that size by default in a struct is needlessly gonna
> add some 8K of memory use for every single connection (for libcurls
> with SSH-capabilities enabled). I think we should rather malloc-on-
> demand instead.

OUCH, I know it is 1024 on some systems I have access to. But 8K is
a bit large.

>
> I think the asprintf() function should come handy for this.
>
> So what do you think about this?

The change looks like it isn't too hard. Today being Monday is not
good. I can do it later this afternoon (Eastern US).

Jim

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