Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 14:12:10 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More devfs stuff Message-ID: <9504262012.AA08377@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504242241.RAA15224@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Apr 24, 95 05:41:36 pm
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> > It's time to change it for ps, who, rwho, rwhod, w, last, finger, and > > the accounting reporting programs. > > Pardon? > > peter ttyv1 Apr 13 08:20 > ... ^^^^^^^ > ftp ftp localhost Mon Apr 24 03:28 - 03:28 (00:00) > ... ^^^^^^^^ > > > Sorry, but I don't believe this list to be exhaustive. > > Neither is it authoritative... Assuming we were talking about 2 character limits rather than n character limits in reporting, that would be true. Any limit could become prohibitive if care weren't taken in deciding naming. That was my point with some of the utilities that hav limits that don't happen to be two characters. You'll rememebr in the prior message I referred to 3 digit pty numbers instead of 2 digits. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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