USM Bish posted in linux-india-help: > Devdas, I did not get the meaning of NUL from the keyboard > point of view. Do you mean 'space' by itself ? This too can be > escaped.
Nul is ASCII 0x0. Nul and '/' (ASCII 0x2f) are the only two characters that cannot appear in a Unix filename. Nul, because it is the "end of string" marker. /, because it is the path separator. Follow up question: What would happen if I did: char *p = ""; mkdir (p, ...); ? Binand -- Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Bruce's Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by Microsoft funding. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
