On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:58 PM, jungle Boogie <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm really hoping its a rare case where a file name is this long:
>
> SWIGTYPE_p_f_p_switch_core_session_p_switch_event_p_switch_caller_profile_p_p_switch_core_session_p_p_apr_pool_t_enum_switch_originate_flag_t__switch_call_cause_t.cs
>

Fossil is not the only tool which will have problems with such
auto-generated names. i have seen generated Java class names so long that
they literally cannot be used on encrypted filesystems because the
encrypted names are larger than the unencrypted names, and too long for the
filesystem driver.

Some examples:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/backintime/+bug/1359776
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/344878
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8239227/is-there-a-workaround-for-the-filename-length-limit-in-encfs

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