Needed information regarding solving File Renaming Bug

[Pranav Ganorkar <pranavg189 gmail com>]

Hi,

I wanted to ask some info regarding this bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742050

As David already mentioned about defining a function

ET_File_Name_Check_Length(ETFile,new_file_name)

I understood that we can use the stat() function defined in sys/stat.h to get the info about the file name length and then check for ENAMETOOLONG errno returned by this function. But after we detect this error, I want to ask what could be an appropriate way of handling this error ? should we just return failure in the functions using the ET_File_Name_Check_Length() function. 

Also, I am not understanding why we are passing ETFile struct to the ET_File_Name_Check_Length() function. we are just supposed to check the length of filename right. so , we just need to pass the new file name that will be entered by the user.

Regards,

Pranav