Reason for LINK_MAX set to 32K?

2004-03-05 Thread Stephen J. Roznowski
Is there a technical reason why LINK_MAX is set to 32K? Would anything bad happen if this value was raised? Thanks, -- Stephen J. Roznowski([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Reason for LINK_MAX set to 32K?

2004-03-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 04), Stephen J. Roznowski said: Is there a technical reason why LINK_MAX is set to 32K? Would anything bad happen if this value was raised? Mainly because di_nlink is an int16_t in ufs/dinode.h and ufs/inode.h. I think it could have been bumped up to an int32_t in