Index: trunk/psLib/src/types/psMetadata.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/psLib/src/types/psMetadata.c	(revision 15502)
+++ trunk/psLib/src/types/psMetadata.c	(revision 15503)
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@
  *  @author Ross Harman, MHPCC
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.163 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2007-11-08 02:59:00 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.164 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2007-11-08 04:22:53 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004-2005 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -49,5 +49,5 @@
 /******************************************************************************/
 
-// None
+#define MAX_STRING_SIZE 1024            // Maximum string size for psMetadatItem
 
 /******************************************************************************/
@@ -277,5 +277,5 @@
         {
             char *string = va_arg(argPtr, char *);
-            metadataItem->data.str = string ? psStringCopy(string) : NULL;
+            metadataItem->data.str = string ? psStringNCopy(string, MAX_STRING_SIZE) : NULL;
         }
         break;