B News' Directory permission problem in /tmp

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <1989Oct23.152647.27702 at utzoo.uucp> by henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
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| 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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Henry, this was SCO's choice.  I don't recall 386/ix having this particular
wart.

++Brandon
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