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From: random832@fastmail.us (random832@fastmail.us)
Subject: [TUHS] early cc variable and function names
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:29:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413574150.106130.180291125.467C98A8@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201410171407.s9HE7jXl010061@freefriends.org>

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014, at 10:07, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
What's actually quoted is what I wrote.

> > > For VAX, 4BSD appears to use an "index into file string table", whereas
> > > 3BSD still has an 8-character string. I don't see any provision in the
> > > 4BSD linker for loading 3BSD binaries.
> 
> I think System III or System V picked this up.
> 
> > > Filenames over 14 characters appear to have been introduced in 4.1BSD.
> 
> No, at 4.2 BSD with the Fast Filesystem.  (Maybe 4.1c or some such
> already had the FFS, but the original 4.1 didn't...)

I was looking at 4.1c in the archive, sorry for not being clear.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-17 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-17  1:51 Mark Longridge
2014-10-17  2:20 ` Milo Velimirovic
2014-10-17  2:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-17 13:35   ` random832
2014-10-17 13:44     ` Warner Losh
2014-10-17 14:07       ` arnold
2014-10-17 14:22         ` Milo Velimirović
2014-10-17 19:29         ` random832 [this message]
2014-10-18  7:25 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-10-17  2:29 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-17  2:40 ` John Cowan
2014-10-17  2:52   ` Larry McVoy
2014-10-17  3:46     ` John Cowan
2014-10-17  3:54       ` Larry McVoy
2014-10-17 19:41       ` Clem Cole
2014-10-17 20:37     ` random832
2014-10-17 20:42       ` Larry McVoy
2014-10-17 16:11 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-18 10:32 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-18 23:03 ` Ron Natalie
2014-10-18 23:11   ` Dave Horsfall

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