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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: POSIX open and NTFS
- Message-ID: <16206@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 21:51:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.064639.24582@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <DAN.93Jan4082920@dan.watson.ibm.com>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >POSIX specifies a minimum filename length of 14. It does not say
- >anything about Sys V or BSD.
-
- Emphasis on "minimum"; i.e., it's perfectly OK for a POSIX-compliant
- system to allow file names longer than 14 characters, although a
- POSIX-compliant *application* should not *depend* on the system on which
- it's running supporting file names longer than 14 characters.
-
- I.e., if anybody restricts file names to 14 characters and claims it's
- because they have to in order to be POSIX-compliant, they're full of
- prunes.
-