Add TODO item relating to checking the return value of CCTK_ParameterFilename

git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/CactusBase/IOUtil/trunk@294 b32723a9-ab3a-4a60-88e2-2e5d99d7c17a

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/Startup.c b/src/Startup.c
index 7bb69ca..3acba9f 100644
--- a/src/Startup.c
+++ b/src/Startup.c
@@ -95,6 +95,13 @@ int IOUtil_Startup (void)
 
   /* advertise the parameter file */
   parfile[0] = 0;
+
+  /* TODO: check the returned size; the function silently truncates
+   * the filename if it doesn't fit in the buffer; I can't think of a
+   * situation where this is useful. Even better, modify
+   * CCTK_ParameterFilename to allocate memory for the string, like
+   * many other Cactus functions do. */
+
   CCTK_ParameterFilename (sizeof (parfile), parfile);
   advertised_file.slice = "";
   advertised_file.thorn = CCTK_THORNSTRING;