Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:05:02 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>, Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, John LoVerso <loverso@infolibria.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mktemp() patch Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006101549540.4952-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006091254540.65295-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > dotfiles for example). I don't believe there's such a thing as a lowest > common denominator of file system naming conventions - either a filesystem > can support UFS names (perhaps through a translation later) or it's not > suitable for running FreeBSD from. There is the POSIX.1 portable filename character set: [A-Za-z._-] (from which the hyphen shall not be used as the first character of a portable filename). There are the POSIX NAME_MAX and pathconf(path, _SC_NAME_MAX) test features. NAME_MAX may be as low as 14 on POSIX systems. It is a small step from 14 to 11 or 8 to support non-POSIX 8.3 filenames. Very few programs actually support systems with variable or short filenames. patch(1) is one. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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