-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hal Murray wrote: > [email protected] said: >> i guess i'd be a lot more worried if the volume name (or whatever it >> is that's being used as the device name) could contain a slash ('/') >> character. because that would no doubt render the device unmountable. >> someone should try that... > > It's the same problem. Whatever works for spaces should work for slash too. > That may be an argument for using backslash in front of funny characters > rather than quotes around the string.
In fact, this is not true. In POSIX filenames (and directory names) "/" is the only character that is explicitly disallowed. In contrast, " " is a perfectly valid character in a filename. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknawx4ACgkQUJT6e6HFtqR/1gCeON/fhmhS3DGB2BF1gzknQNdi 9p0An34tICd2TXoqQ0LcfhwF2ePDeRVe =e1J1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
