Linux and HPFS filenames 3002

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:54:24 GMT, Mark Healey staggered into the Black Sun and said:

"A lot" is 2 words. You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?

For maximum cross-filesystem and cross-platform combatability, your filenames should always match A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9-.+ . If they do, probably any filesystem or platform that gets invented in the future. The HPFS module code in linux-fs-hpfs-name.c says that the chars that be easy to write the OS-2 equivalent of a shell script to remove those characters from the filenames, no?

I think that'd involve hacking the kernel code, since there's no reference to LONGNAME within linux-fs-hpfs-* . There's a function called hpfsgetea() that reads extended attributes from an fnode, but nothing calls it with "LONGNAME" in the HPFS module for 2.6.10. There are examples in linux-fs-hpfs-inode.c where that function is called with UID, GID, SYMLINK, MODE, and DEV to read obvious information... so it shouldn't be insanely difficult to hack something together. I still think the "write OS-2 shell script to remove bad characters" would be a quicker and easier solution than kernel hacking. Your call, though. HTH,

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