[TriLUG] question on maximum path length or file name

[Glenn Hennessee]

I'm trying to figure out how long a filename can be or how deeply a file 
can be nested in terms of the length of the path to get to it. A stat -f 
/ on my system tells me that Namelen equals 255. I assume that this 
means a file cannot have a length of more that 255 characters but does 
that include the path to get to that file? I haven't found anything of 
help so far with google.

Thanks for any help.
glenn

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Glenn Hennessee
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