[Esd-l] Long file names?

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Sat Oct 27 12:36:00 PDT 2001


On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Robby wrote:

> Mangling executable filename "Health magazine,Health
> informationfor alternative health,alternative medicine and
> alternative therapy - family health ne...".
> 
> Is there maybe a problem with filenames that are to long?

Not with length, but possibly with certain characters; and that looks
like a relly poorly formed filename.

I believe that the sanitizer won't choke on filenames with wierd
characters, but I may have overlooked something. Do you still have the
message that caused the problem? If so, could you gzip it up and send
it to me?

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