[GRASS5] [bug #3798] (grass) i.points: error in tmp file handling

[Hamish]

> Request Tracker wrote:
> 
> >this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3798
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Subject: i.points: error in tmp file handling
> >
> >Platform: GNU/Linux/i386
> >grass obtained from: CVS
> >grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
> >GRASS Version: cvs 26.10.2005
> >
> >1. GRASS 6.1.cvs (caves_xy):~ > i.points wlasnosc
> >2. plot raster, quit
> >3. error message printed:
> >¨ï·¨ï·assdata/caves_xy/wlasnosc/.tmp/quercus.biol.uni.wroc.pl/10316.
> >0: No such file or directory
> 
> Something similar seems to happen in i.ortho.photo (recently
> introduced!). This may be related to:
> - file name buffer length not updated in all places to GNAME_MAX

probable:

> >3. error message printed:
> >¨ï·¨ï·assdata/caves_xy/wlasnosc/.tmp/quercus.biol.uni.wroc.pl/10316.
> >0: No such file or directory

note "assdata/caves_xy/wlasnosc/.tmp/quercus.biol.uni.wroc.pl/10316"
is 63 chars long.

Need to run it through a GUI frontend to gdb like ddd or kdbg and watch
that variable to see when the truncation happens.


> - removal of email notification (not sure)

I doubt it. (code unrelated to file handling ripped out, G_percent()
added) Never say never though.


> - any changes in tmp file management?

Not that I am aware of / remember.



Follow the trail to find limiting string buffer of [64] to solve this
bug...


Hamish