Re: [RFC Aufs2 #2 21/28] aufs sysfs entries

[hooanon05]

Evgeniy Polyakov:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:05:47PM +0900, hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx (hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Is the limit of PATH_MAX applied to the absolute path too?
> 
> No, only path used in the given operation (related or absolute) is
> limited. If related path is converted into the absolute just for the
> purpose of dump and not to be used in some syscall, it can have any
> length, so you may need to rethink which pathes are presented in sysfs
> and what should be moved outside.

As a result, current code is implemented.
- aufs entries under sysfs print the absolute path.
- sets limit (PAGE_SIZE) to its length.
- and I think it is enough.

Theoretically, every entries under procfs (or sysfs?) which contains the
absolute path have this problem.


J. R. Okajima
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