summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorphk <phk@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-04 11:07:28 +0000
committerphk <phk@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-04 11:07:28 +0000
commite4bc5a2e462a7f175b96acc2a86178e0e204e925 (patch)
tree8276e00fecd3eb58dcfe2351af24a281f28e4291
parentf313c57d47541a48ff1fb42315630e85797d3d5e (diff)
downloadFreeBSD-src-e4bc5a2e462a7f175b96acc2a86178e0e204e925.zip
FreeBSD-src-e4bc5a2e462a7f175b96acc2a86178e0e204e925.tar.gz
Increase the allowed length of device names to 63 characters.
This is a band-aid while I fret over how much breakage removing the restriction entirely will result in. Please note that this is still a limit for the entire pathname relative to the mountpoint of devfs, so the length of "/dev/fd/3" is 4 characters.
-rw-r--r--sys/sys/param.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/sys/param.h b/sys/sys/param.h
index 036e4bb..033e1d7 100644
--- a/sys/sys/param.h
+++ b/sys/sys/param.h
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
#define NOFILE OPEN_MAX /* max open files per process */
#define NOGROUP 65535 /* marker for empty group set member */
#define MAXHOSTNAMELEN 256 /* max hostname size */
-#define SPECNAMELEN 15 /* max length of devicename */
+#define SPECNAMELEN 63 /* max length of devicename */
/* More types and definitions used throughout the kernel. */
#ifdef _KERNEL
OpenPOWER on IntegriCloud