[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/6] daemon: Missing #includes revealed by cross-compiling.

[Jim Meyering]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:39:49PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:25:13PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> >> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> >> > Subject: [PATCH 2/6] daemon: Missing #includes revealed by cross-compiling.
>> >>
>> >> Looks fine and obviously safe.
>> >> What symbols?
>> >
>> > The two problems fixed by this are that PATH_MAX requires <limits.h>
>> > (on Win32 anyhow), and that various str* and mem* functions were being
>> > used without including <string.h> (probably works because this is
>> > implicitly included from another header file).
>>
>> Did you know that PATH_MAX may not be defined at all?
>> Or it may be defined to something outrageously large?
>> That's why coding style guidelines often suggest to avoid it altogether.
>
> Sure, but in the cases we care about, it is defined and not
> outrageously large.  4096 on Linux, 256(!) on Windows.

Right.
I suppose it is not be worth removing, here.