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- From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
- Subject: Re: long filenames in backup
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:08:33 GMT
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- | merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick) writes:
- |I just received several errors during a backup by name of my system stating
- |the filenames are too long. The files in question have a filename length
- |of about 80 characters so it is above the SYSV limit, but well below the BSD
- |length of 240.
- |
- |Is this a feature or bug? I would assume that since AIX supports the BSD
- |filestructure, the backup command would be able to back up the files.
-
- The maximum total path length for any file is 1024 bytes; this includes
- the file name. (In actuality this length is 1023 bytes, as stated in the
- limits.h file, because POSIX says the last [1024th] byte is the terminating
- NULL.)
-
- Have you checked to see what the path is that is actually being stored?
-
- cheers,
- mark
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