> I forgot, / is actually illegal. I'm almost (but not quite) certain that \0 > is legal, and if I understand my emacs correctly you may be able to type it > as ctrl-space. It displays as ^@ in emacs. >
what system call do you use to create a file with \0 in the name? i'm not really keeping up, but last i checked creat doesn't take a filename length, and therefore the null will terminate the string. - erik
