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 > > -- There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
