Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Linux POSIX file system test suite

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:48:18 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.drivers.fuse.zfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:51:09PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> expect 0 symlink ${name256} ${n0}
> expect 0 unlink ${n0}
> 
> Test 6 is failing with ENAMETOOLONG
> Test 7 is failing (correctly) with ENOENT because test 6 failed.
> 
> So there's only one failure here, and that is that that we're rejecting
> ${name256} as too long. I think that getname() is doing this. Seems sane
> to me to disallow symlinking to pathnames that can't be constructed,
> even if POSIX apparently allows it.

i'd rather expect this to be the component validation in xfs_symlink.
It's superflous and not done by any other fiesystem.

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