Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd

[Patrick Negre]

Le Wednesday 08 February 2006 10:44, Tom Bachmann a écrit :
> the problem is that POSIX only specifies one reserved character, '/',
> and thus foo.tar.bz2:as_dir is a valid name. So such a file could exist.
>
> btw, ':' is not a practical separator. I have several files (I did not
> create) on my disk containing ':' in the name.

By luck, i've no file ending with :*_tr.
Ok, be POSIX compliant is good, and make distorsions is bad.
But, POSIX don't handle polytype.
So, forbid filenames which ends with :*_tr is a light evil in compare with 
creating dynamic names in the fs, and having a decent solution to this 
problem.

Regards, Patrick N.





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