On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 05:38:12PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014, at 16:42, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > So it looks like allowing the placement of the XXX characters in the > > middle of the filename is a GNU coreutils extension, and it must have > > been introduced very shortly after Ubuntu 10.04 snapshotted its > > coreutils package from Debian. > > You are right. On Wed Nov 4 2009 there is this in coreutils' git: > > -TEMPLATE must end in at least 3 consecutive `X's.\n\ > +TEMPLATE must contain at least 3 consecutive `X's in last component.\n\ > > and: > > -count_trailing_X_s (const char *s) > +count_consecutive_X_s (const char *s, size_t len) > > So, you can probably drop the patch. Well, I actually care about portability to *BSD and other legacy Unix systems :-), so I plan to the change to push the XXXXXX to the end of the template. Thanks for pointing this out, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
