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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:40:19 +0800 (CST)
From:      =?big5?q?Patrick=20Dung?= <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Mount name length limit (MNAMELEN)
Message-ID:  <20040804144019.83129.qmail@web51805.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hi

It seems that the constant is in /usr/sys/sys/mount.h.
The limit is already there since the initial import in
1995. (From 4.4BSD?)
I want to know what is the root cause preventing a
larger value.

PS: I have found some interesting links about
MNAMELEN:

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2003-08/msg00194.html

http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/FreeBSD/mnamelen.hawk

>From Compaq(HP) Tru64 UNIX 5.1 man pages, it seems
that Tru64 UNIX also have a restriction of 90
chars.(They also based on BSD?)
http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_HTML/MAN/MAN2/0114____.HTM

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