encountering problems with PATH_MAX testing

[Loulwa Salem]

Steve Grubb wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 11:28, Loulwa Salem wrote:
> 
>>Anybody can think of a way to go around this and still test the
>>=PATH_MAX, and =PATH_MAX-1 cases?
> 
> 
> Are you trying to create a dirname that is 4085 bytes long? dirs are limited 
> to 255 bytes for their name. You will have to create a series of dirs to get 
> the right length. Is this what you are doing?

Ah ... I was trying to create one really long directory ...
I think at some point I thought of doing what you suggested ... but 
disregarded it because I thought it would be a pain to cascade 
directories ...

Thanks for the help Steve
- Loulwa