Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 01:19:07 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers list) Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names? Message-ID: <199701140119.BAA11586@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jan 1997 23:33:58 %2B0100." <199701132233.XAA03055@yedi.iaf.nl>
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> Question: are files/dirs with leading . valid DOS names? I'm really
> suspicious about 'm (all of this was 2.1.5R BTW)
>
> Wilko
No. You've got to have at least one char before the '.'.
Another "interesting" thing about the existing msdosfs: Share one of these
partitions via samba, and then "copy-and-paste" a directory using win95. You
end up with a rather messy directory that lacks '.' & '..' !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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