Re: MAXPATHLEN not enforced

1999-10-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marc Slemko writes: : Why does FreeBSD let you create paths longer than MAXPATHLEN? Because this is allowed. : I often have various trees that are as deep as possible for testing various : programs for holes, and I finally figured out why locate wasn't updating

MAXPATHLEN not enforced

1999-10-16 Thread Marc Slemko
Why does FreeBSD let you create paths longer than MAXPATHLEN? I often have various trees that are as deep as possible for testing various programs for holes, and I finally figured out why locate wasn't updating its database properly; it was choking as soon as it saw a path length >MAXPATHLEN l