Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On POSIX hosts, that can happen only if the file names are silently
> truncated, right? I.e., if _POSIX_NO_TRUNC is zero. Does anybody
> still use hosts like that? If so, here's a patch. This patch won't
> fix any Debian behavior, since _POSIX_NO_TRUNC is 1 on Debian, but it
> would help on _POSIX_NO_TRUNC==0 hosts.
>
> Perhaps a similar patch could be used for vfat filesystems. That is,
> same_name could inspect the results of the stat system calls to see
> whether the files live on a vfat filesystem. I don't know all the ins
> and outs of vfat names, though.
>
> 2003-08-17 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * same.c: Include <stdbool.h>, <limits.h>.
> (_POSIX_NAME_MAX): Define if not defined.
> (MIN): New macro.
> (same_name): If file names are silently truncated, report
> that the file names are the same if they are the same after
> the silent truncation.
...
> +#if ! _POSIX_NO_TRUNC && HAVE_PATHCONF && defined _PC_NAME_MAX
> + if (same && ! identical_basenames)
> + {
> + long name_max = (errno = 0, pathconf (source_dirname, _PC_NAME_MAX));
> + if (name_max < 0)
> + {
> + if (errno)
> + {
> + /* Shouldn't happen. */
> + error (1, errno, "%s", source_dirname);
> + }
> + same = false;
> + }
Thanks! I've applied that.
But shouldn't the above two references to source_dirname
be to dest_dirname instead, because only the limits of the
destination directory are relevant?
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