Re: [PATCH 05/13] overlayfs: add statfs support

[J. R. Okajima]

Ben Hutchings:
> If I'm not mistaken, glibc uses it to implement pathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX),
> which may be used by applications in conjunction with readdir_r().

I agree pathconf(3) depends upon the filesystem type. I've posted about
the _PC_LINK_MAX and statfs(2). See my past post and its thread in detail.

[RFC 0/5] pathconf(3) with _PC_LINK_MAX
<http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126008634810706&w=2>


J. R. Okajima

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