Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!oliveb!amdahl!machina From: machina@uts.amdahl.com (Miguel A. Ramirez) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Help! modifying os to support >14 char filenames (sys V.3) Message-ID: <6ahX02RyccUX01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 26 Sep 90 07:12:00 GMT References: <1430@engadm2.csd.mot.com> <8738@orca.wv.tek.com> Reply-To: machina@tde.uts.amdahl.com (Miguel A. Ramirez) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 30 In article pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: *On 19 Sep 90 06:18:17 GMT, machina@uts.amdahl.com (Miguel A. Ramirez) said: * * [ ... on how many user programs have an hard coded 14 for the * max length of file name in a System V environment, and thus * would not respond to a change in a #define ... ] * * *Maybe I should have written 'an easy (relative to the other *alternatives) Yes, this would have been better. [...] * *machina> No? But I thought it was an easy hack? -- * *You seem so sure, you must have done so. So please, for our information, *post a list of commands and libraries in the standard System V *distribution that have an hard coded 14, the relative percentage of *source files, and in how many places for each. Ah Piercarlo, I'd love to! Especially since I have to gives this info to our test group. But company policy prohibits me from giving away valuable information. Trust me, if you ever have the pleasure of working on a Amdahl running UTS 2.1 or greater you'll see what I mean. -- Miguel A. Ramirez, | machina@uts.amdahl.com | {sun,uunet}!amdahl!machina