Knob to turn off _POSIX_NO_TRUNC
Ryan Stone
rysto32 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 17:32:39 UTC 2011
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Gary Jennejohn
<gljennjohn at googlemail.com> wrote:
> OK, but trimming to me as a native english speaker means returning ENAMETOOLONG
> rather than allowing names longer than NAME_MAX. That is, after all, what trimming
> means - cutting off.
The two behaviours here are:
lookup_trim == 1 -- filenames are silently truncated(i.e. trimmed) if
longer than NAME_MAX
lookup_trim == 0 -- filenames longer than NAME_MAX are rejected with
ENAMETOOLONG
The name makes perfect sense to me, personally.
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