Re: On PATH_MAX

[Bas Wijnen]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:02:36PM +0100, ness wrote:
> >The problem is that I call a file system server and ask for a list of
> >files, and I never get a reply because a file name is too long.
> >
> >I still think this can be fixed by limiting the name to some
> >client-specified size though.  I just realised that the client should also
> >communicate this size to the server, so it doesn't attempt to transfer more
> >(taking more time than needed).
>
> The problem Jonathan pointed out is that *others* will delay. This is not
> the case, as the server will be multithreaded.

Multi-threaded, or handling data in chunks with an event-loop, like the Glib
main loop that Gtk uses.

Jonathan, would that solve the problems you are talking about?  I don't see
any others...

Thanks,
Bas

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