Unix file systems (UFS, SVFS, EFS....)?

[J.T. Conklin]

In article <1822 at hulda.erbe.se> prc at erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
>Is there any way that a program can check how long a file name can be
>before creating it in a directory without actually trying to create a
>file first?
>

Yes, If your system provides pathconf():

	maxlen = pathconf ("/usr/spool/foo", _PC_NAME_MAX);

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