[linux-cifs-client] RE: Longnames (was problems with cifs)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:11:51PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 13:12, Naidu Bollineni wrote:
> > The filenames do have <, > characters in them.
> > With mapping the illegal characters (by ORing 0xFF00 to the character),
> > is it possible for server to return the true name at all, if the client
> > says it can handle such things?
> 
> Yes. If the "mapchars" mount option is used, the reserved characters
> (except slash) will be mapped going to/from the server, allowing you to
> create files with such characters in the filename and see them in ls,
> stat etc.

Ok, based on feedback gathered over here at SambaXP I'm
going to fix the parsing algorithms for 3.0.XX (where XX > 14a)
so that "mapchars" isn't needed - we'll allow the "illegal" characters
from a CIFSFS client.

Jeremy.