For compatibility with fat/pcfs. But you are right this should only be used if the file system is unable to handle long names.
Olga On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:52 PM, <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > >>On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM, <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: >>> >>>>Can anyone from Sun please tell us why Bug 6932124 is locked? I cannot >>>>look it up via bugs.opensolaris.org >>> >>> I just filed it; I'm not sure why it would locked. >>> >>> This bug is this: >>> >>> $ mktemp log.2010-03-04.XXXXXX >>> log_2sie.t0f >> >>mktemp tries to fit its name into a 8.3 DOS naming. > > *why*? > > > It is clearly not compatible with the current implementation and some > scripts broke with the new ksh93 because of this. > > Casper > > _______________________________________________ > ksh93-integration-discuss mailing list > ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ksh93-integration-discuss > -- , _ _ , { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } .----'-/`-/ olga.kryzhanovska at gmail.com \-`\-'----. `'-..-| / Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer \ |-..-'` /\/\ /\/\ `--` `--`
