Re: CVS commit: src/tests/fs/vfs

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Wed, 2 Feb 2022 15:26:21 +0000
    From:        David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <CAGN_6pavE1op_jktGjFV_-irzRp+ubiC_3BJKZoA4xKW77xGkw%mail.gmail.com@localhost>

  | So, we just need an optional flag when mounting v7fs to truncate any
  | looked up filename component to 14 characters

That's not, or shouldn't be, necessary - that always happened, the limit was
what was stored in the directory, not on the length of the pathname components
passed to namei.

Further, v7fs (systems of that vintage) had no concept at all of a maximum
pathname length (provided there was available ram to store the string).

kre