From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [AppArmor 38/45] AppArmor: Module and LSM hooks
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:16:45 +0200
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On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:14, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Why is this configurable? 

The maximum length of a pathname is an arbitrary limit: we don't want to 
allocate arbitrary amounts of of kernel memory for pathnames so we introduce 
this limit and set it to a reasonable value. In the unlikely case that 
someone uses insanely long pathnames, this limit can be increased.

Andreas