[Oberon] ETH Oberon: file names.

Hellwig Geisse hellwig.geisse at mni.thm.de
Wed Dec 21 22:19:30 CET 2022


On Mi, 2022-12-21 at 09:15 -0800, peter at easthope.ca wrote:
> 
> At least one Web page claims that current Linux systems
> allow file names up to 255 characters.
> 

I just tried 'touch 1234567890' with different lengths of
the filename (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS). Lengths up to and including
255 are working well, 256 and up terminate with the error
message 'File name too long'.

Hellwig


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