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Re: design goals vs mechanisms
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
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Re: design goals vs mechanisms |
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Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:48:46 -0500 |
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 13:50 +0100, ness wrote:
> All you say is true. But in my eyes it's not the system's part to define
> the maximum size of a path. It should allow to pass unlimited size
> strings, and the filesystems decide what to do. Maybye it skips the
> string after 4096 sign. Or, if this is not required, it doesn't do so.
The EROS/Coyotos kernel (plus utilities) do provide this mechanism.
shap