From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: HFS plus filenames.
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:07:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063789628.5720.153.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030917085523.B19276@bitwizard.nl>
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 08:55, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We used the new hfsplus driver lately. However it showed lots
> of files which had a "/" in the filename. Yes in the fileNAME.
>
> ls would find a file called "a/b" and then stat it, but no directory
> "a" would then be found....
>
> I tried modifying the unicode->ascii strcpy function, which I saw
> being called in the "readdir" code. That somehow didn't work,
> although I think it should have. (Not that it would have /worked/, but
> it should at least have shown "a_b" instead of "a/b") But it didn't.
> I didn't have the time to figure it out, but one of these days
> we should mangle those names in a predictable way to make filesystems
> like this usable under Linux... Right?
I haven't looked at the code to see if it does any such mangling,
but what could be done is like OS X, that is convert back and forth
between ":" and "/" which are the path separators of respectively
MacOS and Linux.
Ben.
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