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@@ -448,8 +448,14 @@ astute users may notice some differences in behavior:
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- The st_size of an encrypted symlink will not necessarily give the
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- The st_size of an encrypted symlink will not necessarily give the
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length of the symlink target as required by POSIX. It will actually
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length of the symlink target as required by POSIX. It will actually
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- give the length of the ciphertext, which may be slightly longer than
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- the plaintext due to the NUL-padding.
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+ give the length of the ciphertext, which will be slightly longer
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+ than the plaintext due to NUL-padding and an extra 2-byte overhead.
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+- The maximum length of an encrypted symlink is 2 bytes shorter than
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+ the maximum length of an unencrypted symlink. For example, on an
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+ EXT4 filesystem with a 4K block size, unencrypted symlinks can be up
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+ to 4095 bytes long, while encrypted symlinks can only be up to 4093
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+ bytes long (both lengths excluding the terminating null).
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Note that mmap *is* supported. This is possible because the pagecache
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Note that mmap *is* supported. This is possible because the pagecache
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for an encrypted file contains the plaintext, not the ciphertext.
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for an encrypted file contains the plaintext, not the ciphertext.
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