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From: | Paul Jarc |
Subject: | Re: weird PATH_MAX discussion in mplayer's list. (Fwd: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix for unconditional use of PATH_MAX) |
Date: | Thu, 01 May 2003 19:30:27 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> wrote: > on other systems, you can't create a directory longer than PATH_MAX. As I mentioned on the MPlayer list, you can, as long as each individual component is small enough. On GNU/Linux, my PATH_MAX is 4096, but I just created a path 25631 bytes long. I just happened to stop there; there was no indication that I couldn't go even further. for x in `seq 1024`; do mkdir fooooooooooooooooooooooo || break cd fooooooooooooooooooooooo || break done paul
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