Path length on minixfs

[Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>]

Hello everybody,

I got yesterday the Pl 10 version of the minix file system and saw in
the source, that Dpathconf(PATH_LEN) gives unlimited path length.
That might be true, that the file system driver can handle arbitrarily
long path names, but I think that it is a bit annoying to have to handle
this case explicitly in programs, as one cannot allocate infinite space
to hold such a long name :)

I would suggest to use Dpathconf("u:\") to get the max. Path length that
mint can handle, and return that from the minix fs. Does that sound
acceptable?

Regards,
Ulrich

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