From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 19:30:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBDF16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 19:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5193043D2D for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 19:30:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sjr@comcast.net) Received: from istari.comcast.net (pcp08127824pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net[69.138.220.134](misconfigured sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004030503303801100jop0be>; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:30:38 +0000 Received: from istari.comcast.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by istari.comcast.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i253UY7Q021188 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 22:30:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sjr@istari.comcast.net) Message-Id: <200403050330.i253UY7Q021188@istari.comcast.net> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 22:30:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 05:05:18 -0800 Subject: Reason for LINK_MAX set to 32K? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 03:30:39 -0000 Is there a technical reason why LINK_MAX is set to 32K? Would anything bad happen if this value was raised? Thanks, -- Stephen J. Roznowski (sjr@comcast.net)