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Date:      Mon, 03 Jan 2000 03:33:35 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No 'stupid user tricks' filenames?
Message-ID:  <386F99FF.92B1B644@newsguy.com>
References:  <200001012339.RAA30322@celery.dragondata.com>

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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."


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