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    SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0
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    On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:21 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:

    > A quick test of 'echo "" > XXXX...XXX' the filename seems to be limited
    > to 256.

    I think ext3 limits filenames to 255 or 256 characters. Other
    filesystems probably have other limits.

    The POSIX absolute maximum is PATH_MAX for the entire path, which means
    that a legal filename could theoretically be PATH_MAX-1 (a file in the
    root directory). But maybe in practice this is never an issue.

    We still have the issue where 256 is much larger than the average file.

    But, as I have said before, I am _for_ keeping the thing static,
    although I acknowledge all the points about going dynamic.

    Robert Love


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