Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

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.