On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The performance benefit is there, but on my machine with a PATH_MAX of > 4096 it's hard to see, because the userland work `cp' does is dwarfed > by the work the kernel does on its behalf:
Many platforms allow you to create a directory tree whose fully-specified components are much longer than PATH_MAX, as long as you don't try to create/delete/traverse them by their fully-qualified name. This included Linux and HP-UX when I tried it (in about 1995, so things may have changed). James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
