Re: [PATCH] Tools: hv: Fix for long file names from readdir

[Tomas Hozza]

> > -        char dev_id[256];
> > +        char dev_id[512];
> 
> Shouldnt that be PATH_MAX or similar?

dirent->d_name should be PATH_MAX, but it is mostly 
not guaranteed. And then the dev_id is concatenated
with two strings so it can exceed 256 bytes.

After discussion with K. Y. Srinivasan I just doubled
the size and added size checks for sanity.

Tomas
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