extended file names
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Wed Mar 28 04:47:01 AEST 1990
>Even the smart programs that can recognize the difference between BSD
>directories and System V directories would be fooled and break.
*Truly* smart programs use the directory library, which means that,
since the new file system would (unless truly stupid) implement
"getdents()" correctly, they wouldn't be fazed in the least by such a
file system.
>Even if I had source, I would try to add source for the BSD file system
>before I tried extend the System V file system to support 18 character
>file names.
No argument there.
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