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On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 13:00:55 +0200, "Thomas Schmitt" said:

> I could offer bugs of isofs with explanations and patch proposals:
>
> - isofs: prevent file time rollover after year 2038
>   Change the return type of function iso_date() from int to time64_t.

The tricky part is, of course, that for this to work correctly, you need
to have 64-bit timestamps in the on-disk format.

> - isofs: truncate oversized Rock Ridge names to 255 bytes
>   Do not discard all bytes of the NM field where the overflow occurs, but
>   rather append them to the accumulated name before truncating it to exactly
>   255 bytes.
>   Map trailing incomplete UTF-8 bytes to '_'.

A better answer would probably be to truncate it at the last complete UTF-8
that leaves the string at 255 or less.


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