Re: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8

OGAWA Hirofumi
2007-05-07T18:52:40Z

Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> writes:

> On Monday 07 May 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:
>> > 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 PATH_MAX and there is NAME_MAX, and only the latter (which is
>> 260 for vfat) matters here.
>>
>
> Do you imply that Linux is unable to represent full VFAT names (255 UCS2
> charaters) by design? Hmm ... testing ... looks like it,

Yes. But I think it's not design, and it should be fixed.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>