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From: Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com
Subject: [9fans] allowing long file names with a space too
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:56:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980414095608.oNl7jv9h-ySv8151Fagm1wdJyQfU3Obe_F9Fm9tlH8o@z> (raw)

> The idea is to only send the variable data in 9P, so the
> "machine independent encoding" stays fixed length.  The mount
> driver will do the "right thing".

So why bother with an upper limit on length at all? Why trade one
hard-coded assumption for another? Because you're implementing
some specific protocol?

-- 
http://users.ch.genedata.com/~enh/




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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-04-14  9:56 Elliott.Hughes [this message]
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1998-04-14 15:05 G.David
1998-04-14  9:52 Elliott.Hughes
1998-04-10 23:16 G.David

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