David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:26:12PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
While it is laudable to have an OS that's just a dedicated server OS with
no further desktop aspirations... come on guys. 256 character exec limit?
Most VMS servers are using ODS-2 which is a non-case preserving (think DOS)
filesystem. Only allows 8 directories deep, alphanumerics (plus _- and $)
with 39 character filenames. No dot allowed in the filename, that's
reserved for extensions. Hateful to work around this.
That positively *reeks* of Unix chauvinism. I know that that sort of
thing can make portability of code between Unix and VMS a pain in the
arse, but it doesn't mean that it's WRONG.
Case-sensitivity may be a matter of preference, but I fail to see any
possible rightness about the directory depth, filename length, or
filename character limits. Especially when combined.
When the filesystem was introduced, sure, bytes and clocks were precious.
Most systems have improved since then.
