Re: MAXNAMLEN vs NAME_MAX

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Sep 26,  8:42am, david%l8s.co.uk@localhost (David Laight) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: MAXNAMLEN vs NAME_MAX

| On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 08:10:49PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > 
| > Because it will create a horrible mess for anything that tries to allocate
| > a struct dirent and use it. Imagine having an old library with new binaries
| > or vice-verse.
| 
| Is it possible to add a named 'pad' field?

We could... But it is better long term to move forward and allow for longer
names.

christos