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    SubjectRe: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8
    Roland Kuhn wrote:
    >
    > No, we don't. At least not when looking at the POSIX spec, which
    > explicitly mentions _bytes_ and _not_ unicode characters. So, to be on
    > the safe side, FAT filesystems would need to support a NAME_MAX of
    > roughly 6*255+3=1533 bytes (not to mention the hassles of forbidden
    > sequences, etc.; do we need to count zero-width characters?) and report
    > it through pathconf() to userspace, then userspace could do with that
    > whatever it liked.
    >
    > What happened to: "file names are just sequences of octets, excluding
    > '/' and NUL"? Adding unicode parsing to the kernel is completely useless
    > _and_ a big trouble maker.
    >

    "Filenames are just octets" have never applied to alien filesystems like
    VFAT.

    -hpa

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