despite of the number of /dev entries (Dev -n) there seems to be
an additional character limit. After I had restored all mounts,
(see my post “Limit of entries in /dev”) /dev/hd1t78.2 seemed to
be truncated to /dev/hd1t when I looked at it with “ls /dev”, but
with “ls /dev/hd1t78.2” it was there!!!
I have experimented with mounts and umounts. The result is, that
in /dev there are never shown more than 487 characters!!! Against
which ‘magic limit’ do I bang here? Please help!
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:56:24 +0300, Jochen Schneider
jschneider@–NO-SPAM–ds3.etech.haw-hamburg.de> wrote:
…in /dev there are never shown more than 487 characters…
Can you try “ls /dev | more”?
there is no difference between the results of “ls /dev | more” and
“ls /dev”: entries above the 487 character limit are truncated or
omitted.
Jochen Schneider <jschneider@–no-spam–ds3.etech.haw-hamburg.de> wrote:
…in /dev there are never shown more than 487 characters…
has no one else seen this? No ideas about what to do?
No. There is a total limit on prefix strings (try “prefix | wc” and
how many is that?). The limit is 4000 bytes, and the default is the
max (see Proc -r I think). If your total prefix lengths are near that,
I guess that might be suspicious … ?
Jochen Schneider wrote:
Jochen Schneider <jschneider@–no-spam–ds3.etech.haw-hamburg.de> wrote:
…in /dev there are never shown more than 487 characters…
has no one else seen this? No ideas about what to do?
No. There is a total limit on prefix strings (try “prefix | wc” and
how many is that?). The limit is 4000 bytes, and the default is the
max (see Proc -r I think). If your total prefix lengths are near that,
I guess that might be suspicious … ?
thanks John. The current prefix length ist 861 bytes. According to
helpviewer the default in Proc32 is 2000 bytes. I’ll play with the
-r option and tell the result here.
John Garvey <> jgarvey@qnx.com> > wrote:
Jochen Schneider wrote:
Jochen Schneider <jschneider@–no-spam–ds3.etech.haw-hamburg.de> wrote:
…in /dev there are never shown more than 487 characters…
has no one else seen this? No ideas about what to do?
No. There is a total limit on prefix strings (try “prefix | wc” and
how many is that?). The limit is 4000 bytes, and the default is the
max (see Proc -r I think). If your total prefix lengths are near that,
I guess that might be suspicious … ?
thanks John. The current prefix length ist 861 bytes. According to
helpviewer the default in Proc32 is 2000 bytes. I’ll play with the
-r option and tell the result here.
no change when boosting the prefix length to 4000. Any additional idea?