I think you can blame C's poor string processing functions for that. Every time I have to deal with paths in C I prefer to allocate a static "MAX_PATH" buffer t

I think you can blame C's poor string processing functions for that. Every time I have to deal with paths in C I prefer to allocate a static "MAX_PATH" buffer than dealing with dynamic memory allocation and string concatenation (did glibc finally include strlcat or will it take an other decade?). Or better yet, I'd prefer to use a third party lib for that, but I don't know anything small and simple for the command line.