From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D3F915688C for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:12:14 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.129.124 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1736961136; cv=none; b=g3WVCV/w8lskY4WKX5BRHHshPE6PhUg69D1RWHvxl+4taC+7GiY/n1qrXt6S6FaS5MHLZa0U9nRAV8aBPuIOZwZXqN10+Ofq1goUbPsWuPKrryz1an5PuNwYB3EYT6Rd73q+Xd9juo3feMwGSGD1XXHX8lYUdP7MCVCP94vvnNU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1736961136; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Q+8QgaTEw5b5LXwvCl3tHAzrSKTDngbQZg7cE3RyT8o=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=NOOnFFi4j+IA28D7Nn9ZLpnqa1kpK/zfTT+giwVeU1SqdpBQA9HA+GQfYe1udyceQ2QewtjDG+FuMYhFKexVdIvsg3PfV9ZemLKFdp5j+ONIubl1C6odSxvinBLVLqqeNNSHnVj/PY8xDujCqV7IKig6pHQ64PKtZlgpDFSLqk4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b=Ph0qFxeD; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.129.124 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="Ph0qFxeD" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1736961133; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=VRQHDpuqg7ZYVjVOKwelrDede3vxXPe7ykn50k0p3B0=; b=Ph0qFxeDunVjposoEUeK/iDmqJQ8oTR5bTKx58tDh0drtxbukTFUosA/Zrly1k/82ehJEz 9QA5Nyz4vMLal+II7QzUGbogTQfKw3WOj5U1ofVyjpVdUjtIYc7147Cm6CxtpIkcx0XD1p WxvIvva52mzbnLBJdrqqtvFyY5t4Izk= Received: from mx-prod-mc-02.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-345-k08CgrhyMTWwqUs6M9zRzw-1; Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:12:09 -0500 X-MC-Unique: k08CgrhyMTWwqUs6M9zRzw-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: k08CgrhyMTWwqUs6M9zRzw Received: from mx-prod-int-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.17]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-02.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB79C195608A; Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oldenburg.str.redhat.com (unknown [10.2.16.35]) by mx-prod-int-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 398FA1944D01; Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:12:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Florian Weimer To: Jason Yundt Cc: Alejandro Colomar , linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] man/man7/pathname.7: Add file documenting format of pathnames In-Reply-To: <20250115162052.131794-1-jason@jasonyundt.email> (Jason Yundt's message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:20:51 -0500") References: <20250113213301.410280-1-jason@jasonyundt.email> <20250115162052.131794-1-jason@jasonyundt.email> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:12:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87y0zcgfx7.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.0 on 10.30.177.17 * 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