Kevin Day wrote:
> 
> Has anyone thought about a sysctl to disallow the creation/renaming of file
> names to make them contain characters they probably shouldn't have?
> 
> While I have no idea why, my customers seem to enjoy finding filenames that
> will make afio choke, or make some tool somewhere not like them.
> 
> Before I go about trying to implement this, does anyone have suggestions or
> comments?
> 
> (Yes, I realize the tools should be able to handle things like this, and
> that I should cluebat anyone trying this. However, it's still annoying, and
> should probably be not allowed under secure environments)

Implement this as a file system layer that adds semantics to file
creation and renaming.

Yeah, I know that's not what you wanted to hear. :-)

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