Dennis Blazewicz writes:
>
> 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?
This limit (which I thought was 15 chars) was the limit set in the origonal
minix filesystem which we are using because the code was available, and
more compact than using the minix2 filesystem.
>
> 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.
>
I have never seen this behavoir before. I will investigate it. There is a
BUGS file in the elks kernel source which I have just added your report to.
There is a website at http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ where you can amongst
other things, browse the BUGS file from the latest version of the kernel.
Al
