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.

Andreas
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