Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 07 May 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Roland Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
