Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:45:51 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: steve@ichips.intel.com (Steve Willoughby) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names? Message-ID: <199701150515.PAA04831@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.970114204731.21870B-100000@ichips> from Steve Willoughby at "Jan 14, 97 08:49:25 pm"
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Steve Willoughby stands accused of saying: > 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. Fair enough. You should offer all the encouragement you can to Robert Nordier in the hope that the VFATFS code will see the light of day... > Steve Willoughby * Intel MD6 | It's said that the only thing scarier than -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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