On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Dmitry Chestnykh <[email protected]>wrote:
> What's the rationale for disallowing [ and ] in filenames? Are there any > systems that don't like them (maybe FAT)? Or maybe this is due to collision > with [wiki/ci links]? > Special characters like this are a minefield of potential bugs. I disallowed them for robustness and to avoid having to provide lots of escapes and work-arounds for globbing and whatnot. > > From file_is_simple_pathname(const char *z): > > ** * Does not contain any of these characters in the path: "\*[]?" > > Brackets are not mentioned here: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx > > and here > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems > > however NTFS doesn't allow: > > < > : " | ? * / \ > > -- > Dmitry Chestnykh > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > -- D. Richard Hipp [email protected]
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