From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 21:17:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA07555 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA07550 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id PAA04831; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:45:52 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701150515.PAA04831@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names? In-Reply-To: from Steve Willoughby at "Jan 14, 97 08:49:25 pm" To: steve@ichips.intel.com (Steve Willoughby) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:45:51 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[