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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Bug#8463: konqueror : Should make it impossible to write a file name with more than 128 characters
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-08-16 15:56:38
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Linux QA wrote :
>Package: konqueror
>Version: 1,93 (KDE 1,92 2000-08-14)
>Severity: wishlist
>
>When I tried to experiment with the bug number 8423 for creating
>files and folders with very long names, I noticed that if the
>filename was having more than 128 characters, I would get an
>error message saying << Could not make directory [Directory name]
>>>.  Would it be better if when writing the file name and the
>user gets to 128 characters that it would just not be possible to
>add more letters to the name ?

The limitation depends on the filesystem - konqueror accepts no
limitation :-)

Since KDE can work on top of any file system, there's no way
to know what the limit of the file system is. We can't just assume
128 is the limit because that's ext2's limit. Maybe reiserfs has a different
one; FAT and VFAT surely have a different one, etc.
Yes, that's the price of modular systems....

I realise there are some system constants, but they don't take into account
the different file systems....

><< Nouveau president chez Corel >>
You ? :-)

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