Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?

Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM
Date: 11/24/04

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    To: Martin.Buchholz@Sun.COM
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:29:08 +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

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