Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrey Borzenkov <> | Subject | Re: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8 | Date | Mon, 7 May 2007 22:43:52 +0400 |
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On Monday 07 May 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > > PATH_MAX specifically counts _bytes_ not characters, so UTF-8 does not > > matter. ISTR that PATH_MAX was 256 at some point, but I just quickly > > grepped /usr/include and found various mention of 4096, so where's the > > central repository for this configuration item? A hard- > > coded value of 256 somewhere inside the kernel smells like a bug. > > There is PATH_MAX and there is NAME_MAX, and only the latter (which is > 260 for vfat) matters here. >
Do you imply that Linux is unable to represent full VFAT names (255 UCS2 charaters) by design? Hmm ... testing ... looks like it,
touch $(perl -e 'print "ф" x 200;') -> Name too long.
So what do we do with long VFAT names? As initial post shows, they do exist. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |