Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ??? How can a file name on a system be ever longer than MAXPATHLEN, > which is a system-dependent limit?
You can easily create a deeply nested directory whose absolute file name is longer than MAXPATHLEN. The MAXPATHLEN (a.k.a PATH_MAX) parameter only limits the length of the file name that can be passed to system calls, but has no connection to maximum length of an (absoulte) file name in a system (you can create virtually infinite long file names on Linux, for example). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
