On Mon 2007-06-04 13:25:30, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > 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. Sorry then. Why not reuse the PATH_MAX when it exists already? 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
