Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:15:59 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> As long as names are to be created, or at least understood, by humans, > there will be some limit on *usable* length. In my experience, 255 is > above that limit, but 30 is below it. And I cut my teeth on a system > that had exactly that length limitation (UNOS).
Maybe... I definitely agree that 14 is below the limit, but 30... Hell knows, from what I see on the box I'm using right now it seems to fall into several cathegories: * Very-Long-And-Verbose-Named-HOWTO.html * manpages for X and Tcl functions with obscenely long names * *.deb and corresponding *.diff.gz and *.dsc * var/state/apt/lists/* * ghostscript maps Hmm... Cutoff seems to sit somewhere around 45 - above that there are only apt-get droppings and they definitely are over the top. Dunno, you may be right, but looks like I never had a need to create anything that long.
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