On 9/19/01 10:35 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> John> Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Darwin
> John> even installs on file systems that support anything less than
> John> 255 character file names (e.g. HFS).
>
> My HFS+ drive held Darwin for at least a little while, and that's only
> 32-character, case-insensitive names. Unless the Finder is hiding
> something from me.
HFS+ supports 255 character file names. Yes, the (classic Mac OS) Finder is
hiding something from you, as are the rest of the classic Mac OS file access
APIs, which are limited to 32 characters and weren't updated when HFS+ was
introduced with Mac OS 8.1(?). In Darwin and OS X on HFS+, feel free to:
touch thisfilenameismuchlongerthanthirtytwocharactersanditworks
(HFS and HFS+ are indeed case-insensitive though)
-John
