linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 34/38] vfs: syscall: Add fsinfo() to query filesystem information [ver #10]

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Date:   Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:49:00 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 34/38] vfs: syscall: Add fsinfo() to query filesystem information [ver #10]

Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com> wrote:

> > +static int fsinfo_generic_name_encoding(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf)
> > +{
> > +       static const char encoding[] = "utf8";
> > +
> > +       if (buf)
> > +               memcpy(buf, encoding, sizeof(encoding) - 1);
> > +       return sizeof(encoding) - 1;
> > +}
> 
> Is this meant to be "encoding to be used by userspace" or "encoding of
> on-disk filenames"?

The latter.

> Are there any plans to create filesystems that behave differently?

isofs, fat, ntfs, cifs for example.

> If the latter: This is wrong for e.g. a vfat mount that uses a codepage,
> right?  Should the default in that case not be "I don't know"?

Quite possibly.  Note that it could also be what you're interpreting it as
because the codepage got overridden by a mount parameter rather than what's on
the disk (assuming the medium actually records this).

One thing I'm confused about is that fat has both a codepage and a charset and
I'm not sure of the difference.

David