On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 09:19:59PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> The bit I don't understand about this discussion is what will happen
>> with users that currently have exactly 1024 chars in backup names today.
>> With this change, we'll be truncating their names to 1023 chars instead.
>> Why would they feel that such change is welcome?
>
> That's precisely what I was getting at. Maybe it makes sense to change, maybe
> not, but that's not for this patch to decide as that's a different discussion
> from using safe string copying API's.
Yep. Agreed to keep backward-compatibility here, even if I suspect
there is close to nobody relying on backup label names of this size.
--
Michael
