• groet@feddit.org
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    But dont you think universes are located under /dev/ so you lose 4 additional characters. And I hope they are not just 1 character names each, that would make it realy annoying to differentiate universes from say a USB device or a tty. So if they are called /dev/uv01 you would need 9 characters per universe instead of 2 at least for the first dimension, after that / + 1 character would be fine. So in a reasonable universe with sensible path defaults, the max multiverse depth would be 2043 with a trailing slash. So the highest dimension is allowed to only contain imaginary objects as there is no character left to assign to the objects.

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    2 days ago

    I mean, that’s the default path length limit on most systems, but it isn’t an inherently fixed value. It’s just what everyone uses by convention.

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      File system. There’s no reason a file system couldn’t increase this limit but there’s little reason to for most users. Not sure who the hypothetical user would be that needs a higher limit.

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        Accountants, for one thing:) “Report this that company those and those things from day x to day y”.xlsx Drown in similarly named directories ten levels deep

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            That’s an Application limit however. Leading to you being able to put files where they can no longer be worked with in a meaningful fashion (e.g. easily deleted).