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

J. R. Okajima
2012-08-31T12:47:59Z

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