Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

tridge
2009-05-02T10:41:48Z

OGAWA Hirofumi writes:
> Um.., probably, this patch would be handle the invalid chars for 8.3 alias.
> Otherwise, it'll try to create ~<num> postfix, and I guess it'll become
> the dcache problem.

Do you think that will cause problems?

If it will, then we could add something like this after the
vfat_create_shortname() call:

if (strncasecmp(name, msdos_name, MSDOS_NAME) != 0) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto out_free;
}

or would the potential case change still be a problem?

Cheers, Tridge