Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:40:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: patch for fs max name length |
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On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Bill Hawes wrote: > > Currently there are about 50 places in the kernel where a filesystem > tests whether a name exceeds the allowable maximum. Generally the name > being checked is in a dentry, and since dentry names are created in one > place, most of these individual tests could be eliminated by checking > the name length at creation time.
Looks like 2.3 material to me.
Also, there are filesystems that have a "soft" length limit. For example, the msdosfs name length restrictions are certainly much more complex than just a single number, and as such I'm not at all convinced that this is something that the VFS layer should care about..
Linus
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