Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Linux POSIX file system test suite

[David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:48:18AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:51:09PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> > expect 0 symlink ${name256} ${n0}
> > expect 0 unlink ${n0}
> > 
> > Test 6 is failing with ENAMETOOLONG
> > Test 7 is failing (correctly) with ENOENT because test 6 failed.
> > 
> > So there's only one failure here, and that is that that we're rejecting
> > ${name256} as too long. I think that getname() is doing this. Seems sane
> > to me to disallow symlinking to pathnames that can't be constructed,
> > even if POSIX apparently allows it.
> 
> i'd rather expect this to be the component validation in xfs_symlink.
> It's superflous and not done by any other fiesystem.

Ah yes, you are right - PATH_MAX != NAME_MAX...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group