Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:49:25 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Willoughby <steve@ichips.intel.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.93.970114204731.21870B-100000@ichips> In-Reply-To: <199701150340.OAA04206@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > You can't say "mkdir .foo", no, but the standards for what is and > isn't a "valid" filename are pretty grey, and " .foo" is well > within them. Maybe, but I have had trouble with FreeBSD's msdosfs allowing illegal filenames, like "foo.c,v" or (AFAIR) "foo.c.b" which makes MS-DOS puke. -- Steve Willoughby * Intel MD6 | It's said that the only thing scarier than steve@ichips.intel.com | a sysadmin with a screwdriver is a programmer Unix Systems Administrator | with the root password. MD6 E-Mail Postmaster | Then again, I'm both... Scares *me* anyway...
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