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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Jason Yundt <jason@jasonyundt.email>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,  linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] man/man7/pathname.7: Add file documenting format of pathnames
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:12:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y0zcgfx7.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250115162052.131794-1-jason@jasonyundt.email> (Jason Yundt's message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:20:51 -0500")

* Jason Yundt:

> +.IP \[bu]
> +Filenames can be at most 255 bytes long.

I don't think this is accurate, particularly not for network file
systems and file systems that use UCS-2 or UTF-16 internally.  The
latter typically have their own 255 character limit, but a character can
take up to 3 bytes in UTF-8 (as used by Linux).

This is why we deprecated readdir_r.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-15 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-13 21:32 [PATCH] man/man7/path-format.7: Add file documenting format of pathnames Jason Yundt
2025-01-14  0:20 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-14 12:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Jason Yundt
2025-01-14 13:14   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-14 21:00     ` Jason Yundt
2025-01-14 23:06       ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-15 16:21         ` Jason Yundt
2025-01-15 16:47           ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-15 17:44             ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-01-15  9:01   ` Florian Weimer
2025-01-14 21:01 ` [PATCH v3] man/man7/path_format.7: " Jason Yundt
2025-01-15 16:20 ` [PATCH v4] man/man7/pathname.7: " Jason Yundt
2025-01-15 17:12   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2025-01-15 17:20   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-15 18:37     ` A modest proposal regarding pathnames (was: " G. Branden Robinson
2025-01-15 19:25       ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-15 19:47         ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-17 13:02 ` [PATCH v5] " Jason Yundt
2025-01-17 14:14   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-18  0:01     ` Jason Yundt
2025-01-18  0:23       ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-19 13:17         ` Jason Yundt
2025-01-19 15:24           ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-20  8:20             ` Florian Weimer
2025-01-20 11:14               ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-20 13:17                 ` Jason Yundt
2025-01-20 13:25                   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-17 23:59 ` [PATCH v6] " Jason Yundt
2025-01-20 16:24 ` [PATCH v8] " Jason Yundt
2025-01-20 16:36   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-20 19:06 ` [PATCH v9] " Jason Yundt
2025-01-20 22:26   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-21  0:26     ` C code style for Linux man-pages examples (was: [PATCH v9] man/man7/pathname.7: Add file documenting format of pathnames) G. Branden Robinson
2025-01-21  1:05       ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-21 13:39       ` Jason Yundt
2025-01-21 14:00         ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-01-21 13:35 ` [PATCH v10] man/man7/pathname.7: Add file documenting format of pathnames Jason Yundt
2025-01-23 23:51   ` Alejandro Colomar

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