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Subject: bit 7 in filenames
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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 09:16:55 -0700
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
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SYMLINK(2)		  FreeBSD Programmer's Manual		    SYMLINK(2)

NAME
     symlink - make symbolic link to a file

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     symlink(const char *name1, const char *name2)

ERRORS
     The symbolic link succeeds unless:

     [ENOTDIR]
	       A component of the name2 prefix is not a directory.

     [EINVAL]  Either name1 or name2 contains a character with the high-order
	       bit set.

HUH ????

Actually there should be an error return, if I try to make a filename
that is illegal for the filesystem.

For instance
	create("/msdosfs/foo:bar")
is an invalid name...

Poul-Henning
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