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Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?
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Casper.Dik |
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Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? |
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Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:30:26 +0100 |
>I am genuinely surprised that Solaris still has such a
>relatively small PATH_MAX. Linux has 4096.
Really, there are things you cannot change because of
binary compatibility. PATH_MAX is one.
Having a 4K path seems rather pointless; the longest path on my
system is 225 bytes; a factor of 4 over that borders on the ridiculous.
>Like other arbitrary system limits of its ilk, PATH_MAX
>is evil, and is one of the more persuasive arguments for
>getting rid of the C language and its fixed-size
>stack-allocated buffers.
>
>char path[PATH_MAX]; /* considered harmful */
Evil, yes, but old source code never dies.
Casper
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, (continued)
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/23
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Martin Buchholz, 2004/11/23
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Casper . Dik, 2004/11/24
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/24
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Elizabeth Zwicky, 2004/11/25
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Martin Buchholz, 2004/11/24
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Casper . Dik, 2004/11/24
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?,
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- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Doug Moen, 2004/11/24
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Casper . Dik, 2004/11/24
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Martin Buchholz, 2004/11/24
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/25
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Casper.Dik, 2004/11/25
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, devnull, 2004/11/25
Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Solar Designer, 2004/11/23
Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/24
Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Martin Buchholz, 2004/11/23