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Message-ID: <jebqgwpkgk.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 20:17:15 +0200
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To: Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@....physik.tu-muenchen.de>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8
Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@....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.
Andreas.
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