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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:20:39 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>
Cc:        mexas@bris.ac.uk, rmacklem@uoguelph.ca, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: old bug: mount_nfs path/name is limited to 88 chars
Message-ID:  <99F7DA1A-66EB-4F69-BAFA-0D72E4207248@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKFCL4Vv5Uf7p737uE-riDBw57KTJ7r7QSmn7Bj7i=gn1yo5UA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 19, 2015, at 8:46, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Anton Shterenlikht =
<mexas@bris.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>=20
>> So perhaps changing MNAMELEN will break statfs(2) on
>> -stable too?
>>=20
>=20
> I believe the context there is not so much "-current is special", as
> "changing it for everyone is bad news" (and this would necessarily =
need to
> originate in -current).

A compat layer needs to be created for all of the affected syscalls, and =
the change needs to be made. That=92s it in a nutshell.

Doing it in 11 makes sense since there is a compat layer for 10 now=85 =
if I knew all of the steps I would happily do them as annoys me from =
time to time as well with the path length issue.

Thanks!

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