Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Nor do most Unix apps, since they tend to be written in C using all
> those C library functions that work on null terminated strings.
>
> Null introduces far more problems than it solves, character-wise...
>
..but it's fine as a terminator, if you know what you're doing.
"Santiago M. Mola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted
below, on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:51:32 +0200:
> 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 s
Rémi Cardona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
excerpted below, on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:23 +0200:
> Duncan a écrit :
>> Whatever your faults, you /do/
>> tend to be quite accurate on such things.
>
> Wow, you've managed to turn a nice technical discussion (which is rare
> enough in
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 04:31:59AM +, Duncan wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 16 Apr 2008
> 18:24:05 +0100:
>
> > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:17:51 +0200
> > Frank Gruellich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I was not able to create a
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
Duncan a écrit :
Whatever your faults, you /do/
tend to be quite accurate on such things.
Wow, you've managed to turn a nice technical discussion (which is rare
enough in recent history) into a let's-start-bashing-people thread.
You've lost all credibility in just one sentence... Pity.
If i
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 16 Apr 2008
18:24:05 +0100:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:17:51 +0200
> Frank Gruellich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I was not able to create a filename or path containing it. (Anyone
>> else?)
>
> Unix file name
