Re: old bug: mount_nfs path/name is limited to 88 chars

From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:20:39 -0800
On Jan 19, 2015, at 8:46, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bris.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> So perhaps changing MNAMELEN will break statfs(2) on
>> -stable too?
>> 
> 
> I believe the context there is not so much "-current is special", as
> "changing it for everyone is bad news" (and this would necessarily need to
> originate in -current).

A compat layer needs to be created for all of the affected syscalls, and the change needs to be made. That’s it in a nutshell.

Doing it in 11 makes sense since there is a compat layer for 10 now… if I knew all of the steps I would happily do them as annoys me from time to time as well with the path length issue.

Thanks!

Received on Mon Jan 19 2015 - 20:20:42 UTC

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