From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 2 10:34:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B4B14D1F for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 10:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p19-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.148]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id DAA25016; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 03:33:44 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <386F99FF.92B1B644@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 03:33:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Day Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No 'stupid user tricks' filenames? References: <200001012339.RAA30322@celery.dragondata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Day wrote: > > Has anyone thought about a sysctl to disallow the creation/renaming of file > names to make them contain characters they probably shouldn't have? > > While I have no idea why, my customers seem to enjoy finding filenames that > will make afio choke, or make some tool somewhere not like them. > > Before I go about trying to implement this, does anyone have suggestions or > comments? > > (Yes, I realize the tools should be able to handle things like this, and > that I should cluebat anyone trying this. However, it's still annoying, and > should probably be not allowed under secure environments) Implement this as a file system layer that adds semantics to file creation and renaming. Yeah, I know that's not what you wanted to hear. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Nice try, Lao Che." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message