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
next prev parent 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
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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
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2007-05-08 16:21 ` Bodo Eggert
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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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