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 12:55:35 GMT

According to hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu):
>1. create a file with very long filename (300 chars)
>2. find out how many chars are valid.
>3. delete the file and return that number.

That won't work under a POSIX system that doesn't permit filename
truncation. Creation will fail with ENAMETOOLONG. 

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