Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > I like this suggestion of yours. I agree that the symlink value
> > cannot be a source of error.
>
> It can, when it is too long.
Yes, you are correct. The limit is 3976 characters on my system with
a reiserfs filesystem. I ran the following script to test this.
value=x
while rm -f /tmp/symlinktest ; ln -s $value /tmp/symlinktest; do
value=x$value
done
echo at $(printf $value | wc -c) characters
After about ten seconds it produced the following output, with 3967
'x' characters deleted and replaced with "..." so that it would not be
too much of a waste of bandwidth in this message.
ln: creating symbolic link `/tmp/symlinktest' to `xxxxx...xxxxx': File name
too long
at 3977 characters
Bob
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