Re: [patch] Re: 2.2.16pre nls in 2.3?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun May 21 2000 - 07:39:04 EST


> callers of ncp_io2vol conversions assume that this conversion will not
> produce string longer than original (it can produce shorter if external
> encoding is utf8). But after multibyte encodings come to kernel, this
> may be no longer true. Is there any method to compute upper boundary of
> resulting string size? I do not want to use get_free_page() for
> temporary results :-(

The kernel is UTF8 based.

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