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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 12:34:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <463F7F30.5010200@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fy685w0m.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp>

OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>>>
>> PATH_MAX specifically counts _bytes_ not characters, so UTF-8 does  
>> not matter. ISTR that PATH_MAX was 256 at some point, but I just  
>> quickly grepped /usr/include and found various mention of 4096, so  
>> where's the central repository for this configuration item? A hard- 
>> coded value of 256 somewhere inside the kernel smells like a bug.
> 
> There is a nasty issue here. FAT is limited by 255 unicode chars or so.
> So, we would need to count number of unicode chars of filename.
> 
> That's not implemented currently.

Note also there is PATH_MAX and NAME_MAX; the latter is 255 I believe.

POSIX allows NAME_MAX to vary on a filesystem by filesystem basis,
although that is not currently implemented in Linux.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07 17:51 Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8 Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-07 18:07 ` Roland Kuhn
2007-05-07 18:17   ` Andreas Schwab
2007-05-07 18:43     ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-07 18:52       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2007-05-07 18:27   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2007-05-07 19:34     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-07 19:59     ` Roland Kuhn
2007-05-07 21:01       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2007-05-07 21:12       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 10:27       ` Andrey Borzenkov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-08  4:43 Albert Cahalan
2007-05-08  8:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-09 15:34   ` Albert Cahalan
2007-05-09 15:57     ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-09 23:49       ` Albert Cahalan
     [not found] <8ipOe-5KI-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-08 16:21 ` Bodo Eggert
     [not found] ` <8ityz-2Xz-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <8iWqS-5Ba-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <8iWKp-619-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <8j4eK-QR-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-10 14:49         ` Bodo Eggert
2007-05-10 14:59           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-10 16:14             ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.

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