On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While you are almost certainly correct on POSIX/Unix filenames and the > shell won't accept / in a filename, IIRC (from reading) it's often > possible for C programs to code a literal / in a filename, and possible > for some filesystems (also written in C, generally) to accept it. Thus, > while POSIX/Unix standards don't allow it, in practice, it's sometimes > possible, if rare.
If that's possible, we shouldn't support it anyway. If someone wants to use /var/tmp/port\/age we'll just stab him, if someone releases a tarball with such filenames we'll stab him, too. -- Santiago M. Mola Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
