This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
say is means that a pathname had the high-order bit set, since this is no longer an error.
use ``is expected to conform to'' phrase, not ``conforms to'' Pointed out by: Bruce->NIST-PCTS