>Somehow I wish both Solaris and NFS would use a longer value for >paths... IMO it will hurt some day if multibyte locales will become more >widespead. Short: In a multibyte locale one character may occupy >multiple bytes - which means the maxmimum number of useable _characters_ >in a path depends on the encoding+characters being used. A limit of 1024 >bytes therefore result in an effective character length limit of around >250 characters (assuming UTF-8 encoding and lots of characters outside >the BMP plane) which may be too small for some applications/languages >(e.g. Hindi _may_ be affected), other operating systems seems to be in a >better position here, e.g. Linux has a PATH_MAX of 4096.
There is not much we can do to change it, but there are quite a few things that make this less of an issue: many standards are stretching the boundaries of pathnames which can be returned and used beyond PATH_MAX. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
