From 3080df7a41c2b5d73166540d2b49f64854f6d8dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hinder <hinder@b32723a9-ab3a-4a60-88e2-2e5d99d7c17a>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:53:51 +0000
Subject: 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
---
 src/Startup.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

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;
-- 
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