Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752858AbZGFQST (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:18:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750983AbZGFQSG (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:18:06 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:40777 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750874AbZGFQSF (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:18:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4A5223B6.1010102@davidnewall.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:47:58 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tridge@samba.org CC: Jan Engelhardt , OGAWA Hirofumi , Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , Rusty Russell , Pavel Machek , john.lanza@linux.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , corbet@lwn.net, jcm@jonmasters.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> <20090630063102.GB1351@ucw.cz> <200907012019.53932.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090701122558.3a7c80d3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090701140503.GA21185@mit.edu> <19021.19842.663727.146474@samba.org> <87hbxu60qm.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <19021.23231.213863.726785@samba.org> <19021.26102.80885.330380@samba.org> <19021.31291.642416.956966@samba.org> <19021.63615.450348.192109@samba.org> <19025.63119.656216.431469@samba.org> In-Reply-To: <19025.63119.656216.431469@samba.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 944 Lines: 22 tridge@samba.org wrote: > Hi Jan, > > > * "cp dscf4160.jpg dscF3011.jpg" does not work - i.e. cam ignores the > > file without error. > > Reason for that is that dscF3011 has an illegal 8.3 name > > yep, that's expected. I suggested a possible way of handling this to > Hirofumi-san (ie. change the case of the name), but he prefers to keep > things simple for now. > Expected or not, it's a serious bug. If it doesn't canonify the filename, it should return an error. Lying by returning success is horridly wrong. And I might just suggest that as people are now accustomed to typing mixed-case filenames, it's a bug that's likely to occur more frequently than it might at first seem. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/