Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > E.g., what filesystem?
As I recall, I was running reiser3 at the time. > Now I'm starting to worry that it might have been the length of the > filename rather than the pathname that triggered Bug#587440. But the > filename was only 234 characters, which should certainly be safe, even > on filesystems like ubifs. Ideas? Quite likely, in retrospect; path-name limits are filesystem-independent and relatively large, and 234 does in fact exceed reiser3's limit of 226 (per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_filesystems). It might also be appropriate to worry about files whose names exceed the ISO 9660 180- or 207-character limit; the longest current filename appears to be debian_2kwwidgets-examples_2usr_2share_2doc_2kwwidgets-examples_2examples_2Cxx_2FileBrowserDialog_2vtkKWMyFileBrowserDialog_8h_source.html (in usr/share/doc/kwwidgets-doc/html), 138 characters long, so such a limit should pose little trouble in practice. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?a...@monk.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/udlei6pgv91....@dr-wily.mit.edu
