Michael O'Keefe wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
Outside the scope. Nulls are not allowed in filenames.
Only for the crummy filesystems found on Unix.
What FS's allow NULL in their filenames ?
I'm pretty sure that both the IBM mainframe filesystems and the VMS
filesystem allowed NUL's in their filenames.
I believe this stems from the days of punch cards (NUL was useful as a
record label delimiter) and was just brought forward.
Granted, you didn't tend to enter that at the keyboard, but I believe
that it was allowed.
The larger problem is that we shouldn't be using a "filename".
A filename is just a unique database key. Nobody uses the unique
database key in *anything* even remotely user friendly.
-a
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