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- From: Stephen Usher <steve@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Mintlib enhancements ...
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 07:49:12 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <9307052148.AA00500@nyx.cs.du.edu> from "Stephen Henson" at Jul 5, 93 03:48:23 pm
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- >Just a couple of comments. A quick browse through the lib seems to show that
- >the maximum filename/path length are statically allocated at several points;
- >perhaps they should be dynamically allocated based on sysconf etc. It's just
- >a bit of planning ahead because if/when I get V3 filesystems going they will
- >have SunOS/BSD like directories with a filename length up to 255 bytes.
-
- I think this is probably a very good idea!
-
- > One more thing, I've got a version of nlist() going which is being used
- >in the binary config program; is it worthwhile adding it to the library? It
- >certainly makes things like setting/getting stacksizes etc trivial.
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- I think this is also a good idea! :-)
-
- >Steve.
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- Steve
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