Ben Hutchings: > If I'm not mistaken, glibc uses it to implement pathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX), > which may be used by applications in conjunction with readdir_r(). I agree pathconf(3) depends upon the filesystem type. I've posted about the _PC_LINK_MAX and statfs(2). See my past post and its thread in detail. [RFC 0/5] pathconf(3) with _PC_LINK_MAX <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126008634810706&w=2> J. R. Okajima -- 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