Hi, On 8k page size machines, we should fail with -ENAMETOOLONG if the path length is greater than PATH_MAX. Here is the fix. As a plus we don't waste 4k of memory on these machines. Cheers, Anton diff -ru --exclude=CVS linux/fs/dcache.c linux_sparc32/fs/dcache.c --- linux/fs/dcache.c Mon Aug 14 07:26:15 2000 +++ linux_sparc32/fs/dcache.c Sun Sep 17 19:40:17 2000 @@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ panic("Cannot create buffer head SLAB cache"); names_cachep = kmem_cache_create("names_cache", - PAGE_SIZE, 0, + PATH_MAX + 1, 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL, NULL); if (!names_cachep) panic("Cannot create names SLAB cache"); diff -ru --exclude=CVS linux/fs/namei.c linux_sparc32/fs/namei.c --- linux/fs/namei.c Mon Aug 14 07:26:17 2000 +++ linux_sparc32/fs/namei.c Sun Sep 17 19:44:40 2000 @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static inline int do_getname(const char *filename, char *page) { int retval; - unsigned long len = PAGE_SIZE; + unsigned long len = PATH_MAX + 1; if ((unsigned long) filename >= TASK_SIZE) { if (!segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/