fellow monks,

I need some information about the perl's glob function.

We pass Clearcase MVFS directory path as argument to the glob. These MVFS directory paths are usually quite long. The return of the glob function for these paths will be 1 or more paths. But we have a case where nothing is returned by the glob function. On further analysis i noticed that the length of the path is 314 characters for the specific case and for the rest of the cases it is very much lesser (around 200 or lesser).

My doubt is whether there is any limitation like the length of the argument must be less than 256 chars. I checked the perl documentation and also in the internet. But i could not find any detailed information about the glob function.

In reply to perl's glob function - argument passing by jesuashok

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