B News' Directory permission problem in /tmp
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Tue Oct 24 01:26:47 AEST 1989
In article <37127 at looking.on.ca> brad at looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Unix 3.2 is POSIX compliant. That means that if you pass a filename longer
>than 14 chars, it is not truncated, the open fails.
It should be noted that "POSIX compliant" does not suffice as an explanation
for this particular behavior. This behavior is *optional* in POSIX; the
alternative is the way Unix historically did it, i.e. just ignore the extra
characters. That is, blame AT&T, not POSIX, for this decision.
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