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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 20:52:19 -0800
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
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According to Alexander Viro:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > According to Alexander Viro:
> > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > > > According to Alexander Viro:
> > > > > 9P is quite simple and unlike CORBA it had been designed for taking
> > > > > kernel stuff to userland.  Besides, authors definitely understand
> > > > > UNIX...
> > > > 
> > > > As nice as 9P is, it'll need some tweaks to work with Linux.
> > > > For example, it limits filenames to 30 characters; that's not OK.
> > > 
> > > For RPC-style uses? Why?
> > 
> > For the same reason C compilers recognize more than eight significant
> > characters in externals, even though ANSI doesn't require them to.
> 
> s/30/255/ and you've got a big problem with ext2...

As long as names are to be created, or at least understood, by humans,
there will be some limit on *usable* length.  In my experience, 255 is
above that limit, but 30 is below it.  And I cut my teeth on a system
that had exactly that length limitation (UNOS).
-- 
Chip Salzenberg            - a.k.a. -            <chip@valinux.com>
   "Give me immortality, or give me death!"  // Firesign Theatre
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