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- From: jms@Apple.COM (John Sovereign)
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- Since NAME_MAX is filesystem-dependent, NAME_MAX is probably a poor choice for
- an implementation's definition of d_name, unless the implementation KNOWS that
- it will only talk to filesystems which limit filenames to NAME_MAX.
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- In article <448@longway.TIC.COM> dmr@research.att.com (Dennis Ritchie) writes:
- >From: dmr@research.att.com (Dennis Ritchie)
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- >I don't have the POSIX wording at hand, but if it forbids
- >`struct dirent d = *readdir(dp)' then it is flaky.
- >
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- POSIX (and the "historical implementation" which introduced this) is flaky.
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- John Sovereign
- jms@apple.com
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- Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 77
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