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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: kstuff 0.18 (part 1/6)
Message-ID: <10678:May918:49:1491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 18:49:14 GMT
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In article <1991May09.012116.5816@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
> er, do you expect us porting this to system V, given all
> those (CENSORED) long filenames? that wouldn't be brave, but
> (CENSORED) tedious.

Actually, there are only six files whose names have to be shortened for
14-character filesystems: getdevicename.{c,h}, printprotoinet.{c,h}, and
printsocktype.{c,h}. This is hardly a burden.

You should also realize that kstuff contains more than thirty
independent libraries. Someone porting the important parts---nlistlist,
kmem, getuser, etc.---to System V can simply ignore the other libraries,
and the filename length problem won't even show up.

Apparently you'd rather bitch than contribute. Too bad.

---Dan