On 2009-06-08, Giacomo A. Catenazzi <c...@cateee.net> wrote: > The <slash> is locale dependent. Thus a file created in an other locales > could contain the character that in current locale is interpreted as ><slash>. > BTW with pathname resolution rules, the file could not be acceded, but > AFAIK the non pathname resolution system call permit <slash> > (like readdir). > > > [http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html > > 3.169] > > You are linking the old posix specification. On the new, point 3.170, you > see that now <slash> is written between angle parenthesis, to emphasize > that <slash> is to be interpreted as locale dependent character.
So actually I just got hold of the new POSIX specification by using IEEEexplore at university. (Is it really true that you can't get it freely!?) 3.347 says that <slash> represents the literal character '/', not something locale-dependent. Everything else would've been stupid IMHO, if the old standard is still the only sanely available one and you suddenly need to care about a different character. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org