Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763274AbZCQKjm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:39:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760931AbZCQKjb (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:39:31 -0400 Received: from tservice.net.ru ([195.178.208.66]:43634 "EHLO tservice.net.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756903AbZCQKja (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:39:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:39:24 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC Aufs2 #2 21/28] aufs sysfs entries Message-ID: <20090317103923.GA4630@ioremap.net> References: <1237188040-11404-1-git-send-email-hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> <1237188040-11404-22-git-send-email-hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> <20090316180538.GA7069@kroah.com> <7200.1237260402@jrobl> <20090317033747.GA17037@kroah.com> <7974.1237262747@jrobl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7974.1237262747@jrobl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 16 On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:05:47PM +0900, hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp (hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp) wrote: > Is the limit of PATH_MAX applied to the absolute path too? No, only path used in the given operation (related or absolute) is limited. If related path is converted into the absolute just for the purpose of dump and not to be used in some syscall, it can have any length, so you may need to rethink which pathes are presented in sysfs and what should be moved outside. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/