[TUHS] early cc variable and function names
random832 at fastmail.us
random832 at fastmail.us
Sat Oct 18 05:29:10 AEST 2014
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014, at 10:07, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
What's actually quoted is what I wrote.
> > > For VAX, 4BSD appears to use an "index into file string table", whereas
> > > 3BSD still has an 8-character string. I don't see any provision in the
> > > 4BSD linker for loading 3BSD binaries.
>
> I think System III or System V picked this up.
>
> > > Filenames over 14 characters appear to have been introduced in 4.1BSD.
>
> No, at 4.2 BSD with the Fast Filesystem. (Maybe 4.1c or some such
> already had the FFS, but the original 4.1 didn't...)
I was looking at 4.1c in the archive, sorry for not being clear.
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