B News' Directory permission problem in /tmp

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1989Oct23.152647.27702 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <37127 at looking.on.ca> brad at looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
> >Unix 3.2 is POSIX compliant.  That means that if you pass a filename longer
> >than 14 chars, it is not truncated, the open fails.
> 
> It should be noted that "POSIX compliant" does not suffice as an explanation
> for this particular behavior.  This behavior is *optional* in POSIX; the
> alternative is the way Unix historically did it, i.e. just ignore the extra
> characters.  That is, blame AT&T, not POSIX, for this decision.

This is not a "feature" of standard System V Rel 3.2 as released by Interactive,
and Bell Tech.  When the poster mentioned it in this group I assumed it was
a "feature" of SCO UNIX 3.2.  So don't blame AT&T nor POSIX, just blame SCO.





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