From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:56:08 +0200
From: Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com
Subject: [9fans] allowing long file names with a space too
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> 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?

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