B News' Directory permission problem in /tmp
Chuck Forsberg
caf at omen.UUCP
Sun Oct 22 20:02:30 AEST 1989
In article <8910220254.AA05389 at decwrl.dec.com> paine at fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes:
:On Unix 3.2 I got error message for postnews:
:
:inews: Directory permission problem in /tmp
:Article not posted - exit status 256
:
Thanks to Posix, 15+ character file names now bounce.
There's a #ifdef in the news sources to limit the length of
temp filenames to 14 characters.
In this respect, what Posix needs is SVR4 (supposedly with
gigantic long file names).
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