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- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 17:51:33 -0500
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: walra%moacs11@nl.net
- In-Reply-To: Waldi Ravens's message of Thu, 20 Jan 1994 14:56:10 +0100 <r_vinymy9q_@moacs11>
- Subject: Path length in GEM file selector
-
- >From: moacs11!walra@relay.NL.net (Waldi Ravens)
- >In <9401201204.AA13974@urix6.uni-muenster.de>, Marcus Haebler wrote:
- >> there is a little problem with the path length in GEM programs if
- >> you use the normal length of 128 Bytes, this is quite small for
- >> Minix FSs etc. Should we set path length to 1024 like BSD does?
- >Since P1003.1 does not define a maximum length for a path, no application
- >should assume that there is one. You'll have to use something more
- >flexible than a compile time constant.
-
- Unfortunately P1003.1 *does* specify a minimum acceptable value of 255
- for the path length. MiNT obviously doesn't meet this requirement.
-
- Can this value be changed in MiNT without patching GEMDOS?
-
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