[PATCH v3 10/16] eal: limit maximum runtime directory and socket paths

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 08:58:22 +0000
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 12:11:39PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Linux (and FreeBSD) has a limitation of 108 characters for  
> 
> 108 characters -> "just over 100 characters"
> 
> make it generic to cover both linux and bsd
> 
> > any unix domain socket path. Therefore DPDK would not work
> > if a really large runtime directory was used.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>  
> 
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> 

Since Windows defines UNIX_PATH_MAX in afunix.h probably
best to just compute the size based on sun_path which is what
follow up patch does.