What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

Evan Bigall evan at plx.UUCP
Wed May 31 01:25:48 AEST 1989


In article <157 at paix.ikp.liu.se> pekka at paix.ikp.liu.se (Pekka Akselin [The Mad Midnight Hacker]) writes:
>I too *HATE* arbitrary limits, it's so restrictive!
>
>Why don't make the filename length dynamic!?

If name lengths are dynamic with no upper bound how large a buffer would you
allocate for them in programs?
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Evan Bigall, Plexus Computers, San Jose, CA (408)943-2283 ...!sun!plx!evan
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