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From: pekka@paix.ikp.liu.se (Pekka Akselin [The Mad Midnight Hacker])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Keywords: GNU OS features kernel fun!
Message-ID: <157@paix.ikp.liu.se>
Date: 27 May 89 13:45:07 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4315@ficc.uu.net> <338@arc.UUCP>
Organization: Home, Linkoping, Sweden
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In article <338@arc.UUCP> steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky) writes:
]In article <4315@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
]>
]>names are too short. 255 is ridiculous. Just increase the size of
]>struct dir to 32 bytes and use 30 characters. ..
]
]Personally, I like 255-character filenames (well, maybe 127), for
]filenames like "comp.unix.wizards-more.stuff.about.GNU.OS".  I HATE
]arbitrary limits, especially when they're small.  The Macintosh :-( has a

I too *HATE* arbitrary limits, it's so restrictive!

Why don't make the filename length dynamic!?
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