From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 6 20:19:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06750 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 20:19:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mushi.colo.neosoft.com (qmailr@mushi.colo.neosoft.com [206.109.6.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA06736 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 20:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@taronga.com) Received: (qmail 7154 invoked from network); 7 Jul 1998 03:18:44 -0000 Received: from bonkers.neosoft.com (HELO bonkers.taronga.com) (root@206.109.2.48) by mushi.colo.neosoft.com with SMTP; 7 Jul 1998 03:18:44 -0000 Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA00589; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:49:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:49:19 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199807070249.VAA00589@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued References: <199807040226.TAA07461@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199807061332.JAA26291@lakes.dignus.com> Organization: none Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199807061332.JAA26291@lakes.dignus.com>, Thomas David Rivers wrote: >> I think that this is sufficiently unlikely given that there have been >> only two respondents that actually use '$' in names at all... That they know of. There are a number of programs that use user-provided strings as filenames. INN uses $ as a separator in message-IDs. Cnews uses the message-ID as part of a temporary file name. Put them together and make $ dangerous... boom. If it's possible to integrate the namespace into the filesystem and still achieve the desired result, it'd be a Good Thing to do it. -- This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message