Re: [PATCH 0/2] exfat: allow access to paths with trailing dots

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On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 06:40:16PM +0200, David Disseldorp wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:48:35 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 01:11:21PM +0200, David Disseldorp wrote:
> > > This patchset adds a new exfat "keeptail" mount option, which allows
> > > users to resolve paths carrying trailing period '.' characters.
> > > I'm not a huge fan of "keeptail" as an option name, but couldn't think
> > > of anything better.  
> > 
> > I wouldn't use "period". The vfs uses "dot" and "dotdot" as seen in e.g.
> > LAST_DOT or LAST_DOTOT. Maybe "keep_last_dot"?
> 
> Works for me, although I was under the impression that underscores were
> avoided for mount options. Also, I think it'd be clearer as the plural

Oh? I' just - for unrelated reasons - looking at cifs code and I
immediately see:

min_enc_offload
max_credits
_netdev

which doesn't necessarily mean that I'm right but rather that that ship
might have sailed. :)

Christian



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