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From: jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix file systems (UFS, SVFS, EFS....)?
Message-ID: <2391@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 5 Oct 90 17:35:37 GMT
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In article <1822@hulda.erbe.se> prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
>Is there any way that a program can check how long a file name can be
>before creating it in a directory without actually trying to create a
>file first?
>

Yes, If your system provides pathconf():

	maxlen = pathconf ("/usr/spool/foo", _PC_NAME_MAX);

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