Re: On PATH_MAX

[Bas Wijnen]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:49:20AM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> Actually, since there's no latency guarantee, no single thread can
> provide any guarantee regarding how long an operation will take.  Its
> not just others, since some programs require some sort of guarantee
> regarding latency to function correctly. Ie. Audio/video players, etc.

But there is a latency guarantee if the client provides its own PATH_MAX.
Clients which need the guarantee do that, clients which don't can be flexible.
They don't need to harm each other.

An event queue which handles only parts of large requests at once is needed
though, because we can't allow requests to wait for completion of handling
unbound requests.

Thanks,
Bas

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