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- From: Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Path length on minixfs
- Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 13:39:02 +0200
-
- Hello everybody,
-
- I got yesterday the Pl 10 version of the minix file system and saw in
- the source, that Dpathconf(PATH_LEN) gives unlimited path length.
- That might be true, that the file system driver can handle arbitrarily
- long path names, but I think that it is a bit annoying to have to handle
- this case explicitly in programs, as one cannot allocate infinite space
- to hold such a long name :)
-
- I would suggest to use Dpathconf("u:\") to get the max. Path length that
- mint can handle, and return that from the minix fs. Does that sound
- acceptable?
-
- Regards,
- Ulrich
-
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