Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to Alexander Viro:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > According to Alexander Viro:
> > > 9P is quite simple and unlike CORBA it had been designed for taking
> > > kernel stuff to userland.  Besides, authors definitely understand
> > > UNIX...
> > 
> > As nice as 9P is, it'll need some tweaks to work with Linux.
> > For example, it limits filenames to 30 characters; that's not OK.
> 
> For RPC-style uses? Why?

For the same reason C compilers recognize more than eight significant
characters in externals, even though ANSI doesn't require them to.
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