From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 23:21:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31E937B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from btdang@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.248.85.196]) by femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010718062141.NUJA18785.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:21:41 -0700 Message-ID: <3B552C37.E4523260@home.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:27:03 -0700 From: Bruce Dang Organization: Boys & Girls Clubs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Guerin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filename limitation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Umm..this is defined in /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h #define NAME_MAX 255 /* max bytes in a file name */ So there's your answer Bruce Dang www.tbug.org Patrick Guerin wrote: > > What is the maximum length for a filename, ie. 12345678901234567890.txt > > --pat > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message