From kfm-devel  Wed Aug 16 19:19:41 2000
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 19:19:41 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Bug#8463: konqueror : Should make it impossible to write a file name with more than 128 characte
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=96645386927650

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Linux QA wrote:
> Package: konqueror
> Version: 1,93 (KDE 1,92 2000-08-14)
> Severity: wishlist
>
> When I tried to experiment with the bug number 8423 for creating
> files and folders with very long names, I noticed that if the
> filename was having more than 128 characters, I would get an
> error message saying << Could not make directory [Directory name]
>
> >>.  Would it be better if when writing the file name and the
>
> user gets to 128 characters that it would just not be possible to
> add more letters to the name ?

Hm.  _POSIX_PATH_MAX lists 255 charcaters. But that includes the whole path. 
I have no idea where the maximum size of a single path-component is defined.

Cheers,
Waldo
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