Re: On PATH_MAX

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 18:12 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 11/8/05, Christopher Nelson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Eventually, some server needs to know the filename.  How else is the
> > file mapped to its content?...
> 
> You can just read the symbolical name and present it to the user, or
> search for an object with the name requested by the user.

Please explain how to do this when the latency of the comparison and
copy operations is unbounded.

It can be done, but the file system in question is unable to make any
reasonable specification of latency, and we are now done with any
consideration of even soft real time for this file system.

shap