On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:55:57 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:52:43 -0500, Lars T. Kyllingstad > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:27:49 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > >>> very very smart, experienced people sometimes do things without >>> thinking. If we can do something really small to prevent catastrophic >>> errors, I think it's worth it. I think in close to 100% of cases, one >>> never wants a file with \ or * in it, so the library disallowing it >>> will not cause any issues. >> >> Wait... are we still discussing the merits of various file systems, or >> are we now debating how Phobos should handle weird filenames? > > The point of this whole discussion is how should phobos' std.path deal > with filenames. I thought that was implied.
But std.path doesn't have to deal with these issues. std.path is basically a bunch of functions that search for '/', '\' or '.' in some string. The only special case it needs to worry about is that '\' is an ordinary character on POSIX and a dir separator on Windows. If you want to disallow creating files named "-rf *", that'll have to be done in std.stdio and std.file. -Lars
