Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:03:47 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file naming rulesets/conventions/limitations Message-ID: <20021003190347.GB639@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021003123809.GO51897@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20021003132831.02f52e38@mail.lusidor.nu> <20021003123809.GO51897@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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On 2002-10-03 14:38, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> wrote: > ISTR reading about 1024 characters, but that might not be > FreeBSD. this seems to run as long as I leave it: If you count the '/' characters and the terminating '\0' character of the file path too, you'll notice they are more than 1024? (512 'x' chars, 511 '/' characters, one '\0' and a few more for the expansion of '~/tmp'.) > roman@freepuppy ~/tmp 1050:0 > x=x; i=0; while (( ++i > 0 )); do mkdir $x || break; cd $x; done > > but different tools might have their own limits: > > roman@freepuppy ~/tmp 1053:0 > x=x; i=0; while (( ++i > 0 )); do mkdir $x || break; x=$x/x; done; echo $i > mkdir: x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x: File name too long > 513 -- keramida@FreeBSD.org -==- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #3: Wed Oct 2 04:55:42 EEST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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