File name length

[Dick Dunn]

larry at nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
  bill at unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
> >No, Esix has a 14 character limit on filename length.

> that's a real shame - I believe that Intel release 4 with
> the FFS supports long file names...

It's in AT&T System V Release 4 - meaning it's in the base V.4 code, not
just intel's.  Long names are supported only in a "ufs" file system.  (ufs
is the V.4 name for the Berkeley style fs.)  Names are still limited to 14
characters in s5 (System V compatible) file systems in V.4.

>...- but the manuals don't mention how long is long...

Limit is 255 bytes, empirically.
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