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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] support: Add helpers to create paths longer than
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 7:21 AM Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:
>
> On 19/01/2022 13:51, Siddhesh Poyarekar via Libc-alpha wrote:
> > Add new helpers support_create_and_chdir_toolong_temp_directory and
> > support_chdir_toolong_temp_directory to create and descend into
> > directory trees longer than PATH_MAX.

Note that recentish linux kernel versions do not allow d_name 's
larger than kernel 's PATH_MAX definition, in that case getdents
returns EIO, this behavior is since kernel 5.5.