If it is his "remove temp files" script that now mistakenly removes my
home directory, it didn't serve me right...

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
<[email protected]> wrote:
> David Cantrell <[email protected]> writes:
>
>  > Filename character limits are also perfectly sensible.  Unix, for
>  > example, doesn't let you use / or NUL in filenames, and for all
>  > practical purposes you shouldn't be using a vast number of other
>  > characters either - \'"()*;?& and so on.  Unix will let you shoot
>  > yourself in the foot with those, of course.  It'll let you shoot your
>  > admin in the foot too by, eg, putting a space in a filename that one of
>  > his scripts later barfs over.
>
>  Serves him right for not quoting untrusted data properly.
>
>  --
>  ilmari
>  "A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is,
>   at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
>
>



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