On Tuesday, June 22, 1999 12:19 PM, Dennis Blazewicz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
: Hello all.
:
: I have observed from my (admittedly brief) fiddling that elks has a 14
: character filename limit. Is there a reason that 14 chars was picked?
: Big enough to be descriptive, but small enough for memory reasons?
:
Remember v6 and v7 unix? That's where 14 comes from.
(The real reason is that 14 characters plus 2 bytes of int for inode
number fits nicely into a directory entry thats a nice power of 2...)
: Also, I've found a strange quirk:
:
: Take any file, we'll call it "test"
:
: cp test 12345678901234567890
: mv 12345678901234 12345.12345
: ls
:
: Will return:
:
: "12345678901234: no such file or directory"
: 12345.12345
: test
:
: This has probably already been documented. Is a list of documented
: bugs somewhere? Also, has anyone ported "more"? Finally, is there a
: website that I could head to for more info? I'm sure there is, but I
: cannot remember it.
Thanks for the test. This is an ELKS bug, most like a strncmp issue
with the last nul char. Keep up the good testing.
If you will write a shell test script, I'll fix the bugs. Please email it to
me
and this list.
Greg
