Re: [MiNT] Long filenames (was: Pine hanging)

["Julian F. Reschke" <fjr010@email.mot.com>]

Guido Flohr wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 04:24:10PM +0100, Frank Naumann wrote:
> > > system call is passed unchanged to the callback of the
> > > file system driver.  Hm, I currently don't have the sources
> > > of minixfs.  Frank, could you have a look and tell us
> > > what happens?
> >
> > Yes. MinixFS fill out the buffer with the filename. If the buffer is to
> > small it returns ENAMETOOLONG.
> 
> Surprise, surprise, I somehow expected that... ;-)
> But I was actually more interested in the maximum length the filesystem
> will handle. Is it the length that you specified when creating the
> filesystem with minit or is there a bug?  Why does "ls" work with
> these extra-long filenames and why does "ls *" not work?

Because in the second case the shell has done the globbing. Obviously
it needs to be fixed :-)

jr