Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:35:01 -0400 |
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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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