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So, a user should be able to exhaust resources by making paths longer and longer until it just errors out?

And programmers should allocate buffers of absurd size in order to contain pathnames of unpredictable depth?

Also paths need to stay identifiable. And you would not be able to recognize differences of such overlong identifiers in the middle. Unicode confusables aside

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