Re: Increasing PATH_MAX to 8092 and NAME_MAX to 512

2025-04-08 Thread Laurent Lyaudet
Hi Simon, Hi Robie, Simon, I posted my demand on discourse as you requested, so that it can be discussed further: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/increasing-path-max-to-8092-and-name-max-to-512/58748 Robie, sorry, I don't have your email in my mailbox. I don't know what happened with your email. I

Re: Increasing PATH_MAX to 8092 and NAME_MAX to 512

2025-04-07 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Laurent, Thank you for the suggestion. I'm not familiar with any potential downsides of increasing these constants. That would need to be investigated. I think it's worth asking why this hasn't already been done in the upstream kernel, and/or to ask them to make the change. Then every distrib

Increasing PATH_MAX to 8092 and NAME_MAX to 512

2025-04-06 Thread Laurent Lyaudet
Hello :), I know this is a tricky feature request but I need to ask it, even if it is flamed during flight. I helped my mother to switch from Windows to Ubuntu. She used Firefox and Thunderbird for years. But there is one limitation that is inconvenient. She was working in (paper) administration,