In a message dated: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:20:29 EDT
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> I think he is thinking of the five-character limit in the original
>linker(s) used to develop Unix (which very well may have come from Multics).
>That five-character limit gave us the infamous creat(2) system call.
Hmmmm, I don't believe that's correct either. I remember a
discussion with either Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie, who,
when asked what he would do different if he had a chance to go back
and change anything in UNIX, stated, "I'd spell creat(2) with an 'e'
on the end".[1]
[1] This quote is not necessarilly verbatim, but it's close :)
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