On Wed 2007-05-23 18:16:45, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:14, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Why is this configurable? > > The maximum length of a pathname is an arbitrary limit: we don't want to > allocate arbitrary amounts of of kernel memory for pathnames so we introduce > this limit and set it to a reasonable value. In the unlikely case that > someone uses insanely long pathnames, this limit can be increased. vfs does not have configurable pathname limit, and I do not see what is so special about AA to require this kind of uglyness. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
