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Re: Missing MAXNAMLEN?

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:41:53 +0100
Mail-followup-to: bugs@crater.dragonflybsd.org 
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 06:36:06AM -0800, walt wrote:
> FreeBSD, NetBSD, linux all define MAXNAMLEN in dirent.h, but not DFly.
> Is this an oversight or deliberate?

Deliberate. It doesn't make any sense and PATH_MAX or NAME_MAX should be
used instead. MAXNAMLEN is the historic limitation of FFS, for the
archive.

Joerg

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