Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option

[Eric W. Biederman]

OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> tridge@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>>  > Given what you have said our interpretation of vfat has a bug,
>>  > and that small change is a candidate for -stable.  If it could
>>  > be it's own patch.
>>
>> good point. 
>>
>> Hirofumi-san, would you support putting the last_u change into stable?
>
> If you want, I have no problem to do. However, I'm not thinking that
> part is a bug.  And -stable rule is also "a real bug that bothers
> people", but there is even a no bug reporter which tell actual problem.


Tridge.  Is there any reason to believe that Microsoft will continue
to treat Longfilenames without short filenames as valid in vfat?

If this turns into a contest of who can do the silliest things in
their vfat code microsoft could easily introduce a stricter directory
parser and cause all kinds of grief.

It wouldn't even surprise me if you haven't seen such shenanigans
while working on samba.

Eric
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