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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: extended file names
Keywords: filenames unix
Message-ID: <3086@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 Mar 90 18:47:01 GMT
References: <511363@nstar.UUCP> <1990Mar26.234917.13978@virtech.uucp>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Even the smart programs that can recognize the difference between BSD
>directories and System V directories would be fooled and break.

*Truly* smart programs use the directory library, which means that,
since the new file system would (unless truly stupid) implement
"getdents()" correctly, they wouldn't be fazed in the least by such a
file system.

>Even if I had source, I would try to add source for the BSD file system
>before I tried extend the System V file system to support 18 character
>file names.

No argument there.