Re: Move GNU manual pages to the Linux man-pages project

["Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@aarsen.me>]

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"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:

>> (A funny side note: subconsciously, I chose the name "fildes.7" as to
>> not go over eight characters; it came to me naturally after many years
>> of working with and on Unix-like systems, this archaic element simply
>> lodged itself into my instincts after some time.)
>
> Eight's an odd choice for that, though.  As I understand it, the Fortran
> linker that Unix originally used (C did not exist yet) had a limit of 6
> characters for externally resolvable symbols, because that was all some
> IBM operating system could handle.  File names (or "path name
> components", if one insists) were limited to 14 characters until the
> Berkeley "fast" file system.  The tuhs at tuhs dot org is a more
> reliable resource than I can be here, though.

Heh, some confusion it seems.  No idea where I got eight from.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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