Re: On PATH_MAX

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 10:01 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> GNU Arch is quite famous in that
> respect: it produces files and directories with (sometimes) awfully long
> names...

Yes. GNU Arch is poorly designed in any number of regards. This has
nothing to do with the PATH_MAX issue in any direct sense, but if a
fixed PATH_MAX serves to discourage this class of silliness, I am in
favor of that.

shap