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Re: lots of gnu utils have the dreaded filename length creativity impedi
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: lots of gnu utils have the dreaded filename length creativity impediment |
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Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:14:36 -0500 |
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Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear GNU sirs, perhaps many of your tools have the dreaded "arbitrary
> filename length limit", e.g.
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> $ touch $(yes|sed 260q|tr -d \\n)
> touch: yyyyyyyy ... yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy: File name too long
Most likely, this is a kernel limitation. Try running that under
strace; if open() or utime() or whatever returns -1 with
errno=ENAMETOOLONG, then there's nothing the program can do about it.
paul