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Date:      Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:06:46 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        gljennjohn@googlemail.com
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Knob to turn off _POSIX_NO_TRUNC
Message-ID:  <BANLkTi=rA9uSzbzX0fV-8pci=p=Pa6PO6A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110405183104.2304d94e@ernst.jennejohn.org>
References:  <20110405141631.GA78089@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20110405172746.4a02fe42@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20110405154002.GD78089@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20110405183104.2304d94e@ernst.jennejohn.org>

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Gary Jennejohn
<gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wrote:
> OK, but trimming to me as a native english speaker means returning ENAMET=
OOLONG
> rather than allowing names longer than NAME_MAX. =A0That is, after all, w=
hat trimming
> means - cutting off.

The two behaviours here are:

lookup_trim =3D=3D 1 -- filenames are silently truncated(i.e. trimmed) if
longer than NAME_MAX
lookup_trim =3D=3D 0 -- filenames longer than NAME_MAX are rejected with
ENAMETOOLONG

The name makes perfect sense to me, personally.



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