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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Limitations on Standard Filenames in X?  System V Strikes Again.
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Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 20:23:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  6 20:23:32 1987
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> > The irony of all this is that, at least on the hp9000s300 boxen, the
> > underlying directory structure is the Berkeley one.  Marketing
> > considerations prompted HP to crimp Berkeley's 256-character filenames
> > back down to 14...
> 
> I think this was done to pass the SVID validation suite...

It may have been done by somebody under the delusion that it was necessary to
pass the SVVS; however, it certainly is not *required* by the SVVS.  The SVID
says nothing whatsoever about a 14-character maximum filename size; the 4.2BSD
file system is perfectly SVID-compliant, as long as "chown" is not super-user
only and as long as the group owner of a newly-created file is the effective
UID of the creator and not the group owner of the directory.
	Guy Harris
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