Darren J Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 20/05/2010 21:37, Don Cragun wrote:
> > I'm not disagreeing with the move to 32 bytes.  I just believe that the
> > ARC needs to make it clear that doing so is a conscious decision to break
> > the ABIs and that it does not set a precedent for other ABI breakage.  If
> > I remember correctly, an opinion needs to be written to do that even if
> > this is just a fast track case.
>
> No opinion is needed, this case alone is enough.

Well, as mentioned before, the ABIs related to 8 char user names have already 
been removed from Solaris (IIRC with Solaris 8).

Jörg

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