From: Chip Salzenberg (chip@tct.com)
Date: 08/04/92 

From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: Problems with extfs (a way to find the max file name length)
Date: 4 Aug 1992 12:54:18 GMT

According to hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu):
>Can we put [max path name and max file name] in stat()/fstat()?

Let's not add (more) filesystem clutter to the file-specific "struct
stat" data structure.

POSIX defines pathconf() for a reason. Let's use it! 

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