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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: What is the max number of items a menu can have? |
| Date: | Wed, 1 Aug 2007 18:34:59 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Bryan Christ wrote:
Well, I'm writing a "file chooser" dialog, and I was thinking things might bust on a readdir64(). Hopefully, that's >32767 is a rare case.
It's probably fairly rare - though (back around ten years ago...) when we implemented filename-completion in vile, one of the developers was at the time using it in a $dayjob task that had about 30,000 files in a directory.
(vile builds a temporary buffer with all of the names sorted, and uses that data in the process - non-curses...).
W. McBrine, I assume this be true for pdcurses also? Thomas Dickey wrote:On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Bryan Christ wrote:Does anyone know?The count is stored in a short (though 32767 items might be hard to display, and there are probably other limiting factors).
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