Re: encountering problems with PATH_MAX testing

Steve Grubb wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2005 11:28, Loulwa Salem wrote: > >>Anybody can think of a way to go around this and still test the >>=PATH_MAX, and =PATH_MAX-1 cases? > > > Are you trying to create a dirname that is 4085 bytes long? dirs are limited > to 255 bytes for their name. You will have to create a series of dirs to get > the right length. Is this what you are doing? Ah ... I was trying to create one really long directory ... I think at some point I thought of doing what you suggested ... but disregarded it because I thought it would be a pain to cascade directories ...

Thanks for the help Steve - Loulwa -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit(a)redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit