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Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 08:17:20PM +0000, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>> > That path is only 98 characters long. What limit do you think it is
>> > exceeding?
>
> It may be a shell restriction rather than a kernel restriction.

It=E2=80=99s a kernel restriction.

I think the main reason for these arbitrary limits is that in C it=E2=80=99s
easier to deal with fixed-size arrays than with dynamically-allocated
arrays.  :-)

(A valid argument to limiting the length of file names is that it could
make it easy to DoS a system.  But then, that limit could very well be
configurable at run time, pretty much like rlimits, if it were the only
reason=E2=80=A6)

Ludo=E2=80=99.