Mount name length limit (MNAMELEN)

[Ilker OZUPAK]

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 17:40, Patrick Dung wrote:
> Hi
>
> It seems that the constant is in /usr/sys/sys/mount.h.
> The limit is already there since the initial import in
> 1995. (From 4.4BSD?)
> I want to know what is the root cause preventing a
> larger value.
>
> PS: I have found some interesting links about
> MNAMELEN:
>
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2003-08/msg00194.html
>
> http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/FreeBSD/mnamelen.hawk
>
> >From Compaq(HP) Tru64 UNIX 5.1 man pages, it seems
>
> that Tru64 UNIX also have a restriction of 90
> chars.(They also based on BSD?)
> http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_HTML/MAN/MAN2/01
>14____.HTM
from -> http://h30097.www3.hp.com/unix/standards.html
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