Re: fdatasync() error in shred from coreutils-5.2.1 on AIX 5.2

[Paul Eggert]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry, I don't follow.  I've re-read the whole thread and also the
> code in the latest coreutils' shred.c, but I still don't see why 8.3
> filesystems are relevant to the letters in nameset[]

It creates a file name of the same length as the original, using
letters from nameset.  E.g.:

foobar.txt
0000000000

The former name is valid in an 8.3 system, but the latter isn't, so the
rename will fail.  However, it gets shortened quickly to 0000000 so it'll
work.  A similar argument applies to case-insensitive file systems.