[GRASS5] [bug #2238] (grass) r.series: support for wildcards in input filenames

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> I'd just point out that it should have a check against MAXFILES.
> [Maybe not in this case, I haven't studied how r.series works]
> 
> Moreover, it would be good to have MAXFILES defined globally, such as
> with DEFAULT_BG_COLOR, etc.
> 
> 
> src/raster/r.patch/cmd/nfiles.h:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> /* The number of cell files that can be patched together.
>  *
>  * All cell files will be opened at one time, so this number can not
>  * be arbitrarily large.
>  *
>  * Must be smaller than MAXFILES as defined in src/libes/gis/G.h which 
>  * in turn must be smaller than the operating system's limit.
>  *  (Given by `cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max` in Linux 2.4)
>  */

There isn't any inherent reason why there should be a maximum number
of files. G_open_cell_* could reasonably be changed to dynamically
[re]allocate the G__.fileinfo[] array. The OS doesn't have to have a
static limit.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>