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From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
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Subject: [9fans] MAXNAMLEN in ape/dirent.h
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 17:05:48 -0400
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Shouldn't this value be a higher limit, now that we have 9P2000?

Since most of the time dealing with reallylongfilenames.java happens
under APE, it can be annoying.  For example, it causes problems with
ape/sh when using lnfs:

term% ape/sh
$ lnfs /n/kremvax
$ ls -l /n/kremvax
a-r--r--r-- M 459 fst sys 128 Oct 17 23:46 /n/kremvax/.longnames
--r--r--r-- M 459 fst sys   0 Oct 17 23:46 /n/kremvax/alongandboringnameforafile12344
--r--r--r-- M 459 fst sys   0 Oct 17 23:45 /n/kremvax/alongandboringnameforafile12345
--r--r--r-- M 459 fst sys   0 Oct 17 19:27 /n/kremvax/anawfullylongandboringname12344
--r--r--r-- M 459 fst sys   0 Oct 17 19:27 /n/kremvax/anawfullylongandboringname12345
$ ls -l /n/kremvax/anawf*
ls: /n/kremvax/anawfullylongandboringname1: '/n/kremvax/anawfullylongandboringname1' file does not exist
ls: /n/kremvax/anawfullylongandboringname1: '/n/kremvax/anawfullylongandboringname1' file does not exist