Re: buildd path name length
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> Suppose that a package wants to create a UNIX domain socket as part of
> its test suite. If the socket is created within the package build
> directory, this might fail because of the quite low path name length
> limit. What is the correct way of dealing with this? "mktemp -d" uses
> TMPDIR, which is potentially affected by the same issue.
>
> (My personal opinion is "fix the buildd", especially since none of the
> official buildds seems to use long path names, but there is
> disagreement.)
Can't the low path name length limit be fixed? What restricts the
length? Kernel, libc, filesystem, ...?
/Simon
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