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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/intro.2 | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/intro.2 b/lib/libc/sys/intro.2 index 8babf0b1819..fb8ef34cf74 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/intro.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/intro.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: intro.2,v 1.8 1998/07/06 18:27:42 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: intro.2,v 1.9 1998/09/07 16:36:54 espie Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: intro.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:33:41 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993 @@ -565,6 +565,15 @@ or as part of file names because of the special meaning attached to these characters by the shell. +.Pp +Note also that +.Pq Dv MAXNAMELEN +is an upper limit fixed by the kernel, meant to be used for sizing buffers. +Some filesystems may have additional restrictions. These can be queried +using +.Xr pathconf 2 +and +.Xr fpathconf 2 . .It Path Name A path name is a .Tn NUL Ns -terminated @@ -575,7 +584,13 @@ followed by zero or more directory names separated by slashes, optionally followed by a file name. The total length of a path name must be less than 1024 .Pq Dv MAXPATHLEN -characters. +characters. +Additional restrictions may apply, depending upon the filesystem, to be +queried with +.Xr pathconf 2 +or +.Xr fpathconf 2 +if needed. .Pp If a path name begins with a slash, the path search begins at the .Em root |