From: "Rudolf Sykora" <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] several things
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:10:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d00810140110jb11444fyf50ab708305d18d9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26c1814ccfc8559a96987385a144c4e7@quanstro.net>
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> > 2) Reading pwd.c I can see 'char pathname[512]' at the beginning of the
> main
> > function. Does it mean plan9 paths are thus limited?
>
> no. fileservers evaludate the path one element at a time.
> - erik
>
But at least it means that the 'pwd' function returns a wrong answer
_without_warning_ when the path is longer. I tried it. This is not a nice
thing. Are these limitations listed in some document?
Ruda
ps.: thanks otherwise for your other answers.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-14 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-13 21:35 Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-13 22:35 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-14 8:10 ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2008-10-14 9:30 ` Steve Simon
2008-10-14 12:22 ` Yaroslav
2008-10-14 13:15 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-14 21:44 ` Derek Fawcus
2008-10-14 22:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-15 9:42 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-10-15 12:17 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-18 7:26 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-10-20 14:09 ` Yaroslav
2008-10-20 17:21 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-10-13 22:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-14 3:07 erik quanstrom
2008-10-14 13:03 erik quanstrom
2008-10-14 14:07 ` Kernel Panic
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