From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: Problems with extfs Date: 4 Aug 1992 05:19:20 GMT
In article <2A7D76E8.8B3E@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg):
>>I guess the most natural way to implement file name length detection would
>>be to add a max_file_name_len field to the statfs structure.
>
>No, please! Best would be to implement fully pathconf() and sysconf()
>as specified by POSIX.
The real problem is that compress needs to know the largest file name
acceptable in the directory in which it is compressing. Ideally this
would also cope with DOS restrictions in a DOS filesystem (i.e., compressing
a.tar to a.taz), with MINIX restrictions in a MINIX filesystem, with
extfs restrictions in an extended file system, etc. Obviously this
will be difficult to implement in general, but we may be able to take
care of a few cases!
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk