Re: On PATH_MAX

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 19:06 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:42:31PM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> IMO giving no reasonable specification of latency in a case where the process
> supplies a real long filename is not a problem.  If the process cannot handle
> it, it can limit the size itself.

No no. The file system can no longer make any specification of latency
for *any* file, because the act of locating *other* files may require a
name comparison on an arbitrarily long name along the way.

shap