dr_st wrote:An interesting scenario I can think of - mount a directory in vanilla DOSBox that has one or more long filenames inside. DOSBox will show them truncated one way or the other? Then rename it to something 8.3. What happens to the original name? Will there be an "orphaned" LFN entry somewhere?
I'm not sure it's even possible to have an orphaned LFN entry on an NTFS-formatted drive (or possibly even on a FAT32-formatted drive). In any case, DOSBox (and pretty much any other Windows program) is not capable of the sort of low-level disk access necessary for that to happen, if I'm not mistaken.
koverhbarc wrote:Can't check that from Windows, but confirmed that copying a directory results in losing all its long names.
See, there's not much reason you'd ever want to do that from DOSBox.
I might add that the MOVE command was only introduced in MS-DOS 6.
When I commented on stability, presumably not all the SVN releases are guaranteed to be equally stable and I figured the LFN team would have chosen the last one that is.
I think the LFN team just doesn't bother making a new release every time there's a new SVN revision.
The only time people have ever really commented on stability at all is with the SVN Daum build, which is after all a conglomeration of experimental patches. I can't recall any discussion of any one vanilla SVN build being substantially less stable.