On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 5:03 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 2024-04-27 07:08, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: > > Are the |FILE_ID_BOTH_DIR_INFORMATION| fields > > |ShortName|+|ShortNameLength| mandatory these days, e.g. is it legal > > to set |ShortNameLength = 0;| for Cygwin 3.4/3.5 in Windows 10 ? > > MS Windows 8/Server 2012+ disabled 8.3 short name generation on new > volumes/partitions, for example see: > > https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-filenames.html > > https://archive.techarp.com/showarticle53b4.html?artno=827 > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/archive/blogs/josebda/windows-server-2012-file-server-tip-disable-8-3-naming-and-strip-those-short-names-too > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/fsutil-8dot3name
Thanks...:-) ... for now I've disabled 8.3 short name generation in the ms-nfs41-client driver (see https://github.com/kofemann/ms-nfs41-client/commit/f5f276db6337f34d7705e9c981213e31adbb0c7d), until I have time to implement working 8.3. short name algorithm... [snip] > > Is there anything else for a filesystem driver to do to indicate that > > |ShortName| support is not available ? > > Also see fsutil behavior query|set disable8dot3 [[<volumepath> > [{1|0}]]|<value>] [snip] > Sample commands: > "fsutil 8dot3name set 1" - disable 8dot3 name creation on all volumes > "fsutil 8dot3name set C: 1" - disable 8dot3 name creation on c: Is there any filesystem driver/kernel API for this ? [snip] > Based on the above settings, 8dot3 name creation is enabled on c: > > % fsutil 8dot3name query d: > The volume state is: 0 (8dot3 name creation is enabled). > The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default). Same question: Is there a driver/kernel API ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
