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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 19:13:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 19:13:04 1987
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Eduardo Krell:
>You forget that there's a hard-coded maximum pathname length in the kernel,
>so I won't be breaking anything that's not broken already.

You didn't read my program very carefully.  It didn't use any pathnames
longer than about 7 characters, but changed into a directory whose full
path name could have been many thousands of characters long.  The current
restructions that I know about are for pathnames handed to a single
system call.

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