What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

Snoopy snoopy at sopwith.UUCP
Mon Jun 5 04:26:50 AEST 1989


In article <157 at paix.ikp.liu.se> pekka at paix.ikp.liu.se (Pekka Akselin [The Mad Midnight Hacker]) writes:
|]In article <4315 at ficc.uu.net> peter at 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. ..

|Why don't make the filename length dynamic!?

There appears to be some misunderstanding about the BSD fast filesystem.
The length of the filename *is* dynamic, with an upper limit of 255.
The system does not waste 254 bytes to store a one character filename.
In fact, a one char filename would use *less* space in the new filesystem
than in the old.

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