Missing MAXNAMLEN?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Nov 19 10:42:44 PST 2007


On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 06:36:06AM -0800, walt wrote:
> FreeBSD, NetBSD, linux all define MAXNAMLEN in dirent.h, but not DFly.
> Is this an oversight or deliberate?

Deliberate. It doesn't make any sense and PATH_MAX or NAME_MAX should be
used instead. MAXNAMLEN is the historic limitation of FFS, for the
archive.

Joerg





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