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From: Elliott.Hughes@gen... Elliott.Hughes@gen...
Subject: [9fans] allowing long file names with a space too
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:56:08 +0200 (CEST)

> The idea is to only send the variable data in 9P, so the
> "machine independent encoding" stays fixed length.  The mount
> driver will do the "right thing".

So why bother with an upper limit on length at all? Why trade one
hard-coded assumption for another? Because you're implementing
some specific protocol?

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