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- From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: Path length in GEM file selector
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 1:04:38 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <199401202251.RAA15499@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>; from "Nicholas S Castellano" at Jan 20, 94 5:51 pm
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- >
- > >From: moacs11!walra@relay.NL.net (Waldi Ravens)
- > >In <9401201204.AA13974@urix6.uni-muenster.de>, Marcus Haebler wrote:
- > >> there is a little problem with the path length in GEM programs if
- > >> you use the normal length of 128 Bytes, this is quite small for
- > >> Minix FSs etc. Should we set path length to 1024 like BSD does?
- > >Since P1003.1 does not define a maximum length for a path, no application
- > >should assume that there is one. You'll have to use something more
- > >flexible than a compile time constant.
- >
- > Unfortunately P1003.1 *does* specify a minimum acceptable value of 255
- > for the path length. MiNT obviously doesn't meet this requirement.
- >
- > Can this value be changed in MiNT without patching GEMDOS?
- >
- > -entropy
-
- GEMDOS itself doesn't have any lenght limits at all (the only critical
- call is Dgetpath(), and this is using the user's buffer).
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