Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0

From: Ray Lee
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 16:57:00 EST


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:35 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> The POSIX absolute maximum is PATH_MAX for the entire path, which means
> that a legal filename could theoretically be PATH_MAX-1 (a file in the
> root directory). But maybe in practice this is never an issue.

Ah, okay.

> We still have the issue where 256 is much larger than the average file.

Yes.

> But, as I have said before, I am _for_ keeping the thing static,
> although I acknowledge all the points about going dynamic.

I'm afraid I'm not seeing the complexity argument. Do you have other
concerns regarding dynamic lengths?

Ray

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