* Jason Yundt: > +.IP \[bu] > +Filenames can be at most 255 bytes long. I don't think this is accurate, particularly not for network file systems and file systems that use UCS-2 or UTF-16 internally. The latter typically have their own 255 character limit, but a character can take up to 3 bytes in UTF-8 (as used by Linux). This is why we deprecated readdir_r. Thanks, Florian