Roland Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PATH_MAX specifically counts _bytes_ not characters, so UTF-8 does not > matter. ISTR that PATH_MAX was 256 at some point, but I just quickly > grepped /usr/include and found various mention of 4096, so where's the > central repository for this configuration item? A hard- > coded value of 256 somewhere inside the kernel smells like a bug.
There is PATH_MAX and there is NAME_MAX, and only the latter (which is 260 for vfat) matters here. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
