On Monday 04 June 2007 12:55, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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. You very well know that the vfs has a limit of PATH_MAX characters (4096) for pathnames. This means that at most that many characters can be passed at once. I've really got enough of your perpetual unfounded rants. - 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
