File name too long

Cause

The specified file name has too many characters.

Action

If a file name or path name component is too long, devise a shorter name. If the total path name is longer than PATH_MAX characters, first change to an intermediate directory, then specify a shorter path name. Newly created data will be lost unless written to another file with a shorter name.

Technical Notes

In a UFS or NFS-mounted UFS file system, the length of a path name component exceeds MAXNAMLEN (255) characters, or the total length of the path name exceeds PATH_MAX (1024) characters. In a System V file system, the length of a path name component exceeds NAME_MAX (14) characters while no-truncation mode is in effect. These values are defined in the /usr/include/limits.h file.

The symbolic name for this error is ENAMETOOLONG, errno=78.