From: Tim Russell (trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu)
Date: 08/01/92


From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
Subject: Re: Problems with extfs
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1992 03:23:03 GMT

liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg) writes:

>It wouldn't even compile.

>char buff[get_max_name_len()];

>is not a legal C declaration.

     No, but you could easily have a shell script create (or update, via sed)
a header file in /usr/include that contains the max filename length for that
system.. Of course, this wouldn't work for precompiled stuff, but would
kick in anytime something was compiled.