Increase the mount path to MAXPATHLEN?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 21 14:14:49 UTC 2013


On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:43:40 pm Gleb Kurtsou wrote:
> On (20/03/2013 12:21), Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 01:11:45PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> > > I have a patch at:
> > > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~ambrisko/statf.patch
> > > that people can glance at.  If this approach is the right way to go
> > > then I update it for the latest -current and update it.
> > 
> > No, I do not think this is the right approach.
> > You are breaking the ABI in the backward-incompatible way.
> > 
> > What should be done is versioning the fstatfs(2) and other related
> > symbols from libc. Please look at the lib/libc/include/compat.h
> > and its use for upgrading the syscalls ABI.
> 
> MNAMELEN switch to 1024 was implemented during GSoc 2011.
> https://github.com/glk/freebsd-
ino64/commit/f2b990cf8861bb72d4477b39426cbe33f95ffcdf
> 
> freebsd-ino64 repo should contain most recent code, I'll double check
> during weekend. It also contains patch to change dev_t to 64 bit.
> 
> https://github.com/glk/freebsd-ino64/commits/projects/ino64
> 
> Konstantin, do you think it's worth pushing ino64 into CURRENT
> considering 10.0 is approaching? The only unresolved issue I can recall
> is ABI breakage in audit syscalls, providing compat shims for them
> wasn't straightforward due to complex structure.
> 
> Unfortunately I've been swamped at $JOB for a while now and had no time
> to clean it up and commit. So if somebody is willing to help please
> contact me.

Oh, I thought this was in 10.0.  I think we should get this into 10.0 if at 
all possible.

-- 
John Baldwin


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