Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> ??? How can a file name on a system be ever longer than MAXPATHLEN,
> which is a system-dependent limit?

You can easily create a deeply nested directory whose absolute file name
is longer than MAXPATHLEN.  The MAXPATHLEN (a.k.a PATH_MAX) parameter only
limits the length of the file name that can be passed to system calls, but
has no connection to maximum length of an (absoulte) file name in a system
(you can create virtually infinite long file names on Linux, for example).

Andreas.

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