[VM] non-MacRoman file names

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Thu Nov 27 00:36:06 UTC 2003


"Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

> 	Alas lots of assumptions/code that considers that 256 bytes is maximum  
> 	for a file/folder name. Somehow
> 	  I thought I was done, but now I've got possible VM changes and more  
> 	fiddling to do.
> 	
> In many versions of Unix the limit has been 1024 for a couple of decades.
We really need to do a better job of this in various prims, whatever the
appropriate value is - a number of places assume 1000 chars. Terribly
poor practise.


tim
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