On Sat, Jul 29, 2006, EV wrote:
> As I've more or less manually tagged (or controlled) all my 3k+
> tunes collection, I know which characters are used. So I do
> known it is safe for me to change '/' for '\', becouse I know no
> '\' exists in any of the tags of my collection ;) Now, with the
> "originals escaping" it is totally safe.
Some of us are not so diligent.
> > That is not possible to do in a safe way if '\' is also being
> > used as the escaping character. You can either pick a different
> > character to use for escaping (which also needs to be rare,
> > such as '$', '{' or '}') or pick a different character for '/'.
>
> Well, '$' is not so rare in tune titles ;) What about making the
Is for me. We're never going to find one that works for everyone.
Actually, '\' is reasonably common in my collection!
How about '>'? I've never come across one of those.
> escape character optional?. I like '\' as the escape but also as
> a (default?) substitute for the '/'...
I'll look into it. I'm always a bit wary of adding too many options,
though.
> > I think that the '/' character is one area where users should
> > not even get the option of breaking the filesystem. They should
> > be allowed to change the character used as a replacement for
> > '/' but should not be able to prevent it from being replaced.
>
> Agree.
Implemented in just the patch I just submitted.
> >
> > eg. (using vanilla lkarmafs-0.1.7)
> >
> > $ ls /mnt/karma/tune/A-Ha/Hunting\ High\ And\ Low/
> > Take On Me.ogg Take On Me.ogg Take On Me.ogg Take On Me.ogg
>
> But this is very strange, or just impossible situation, isn't it?
> AFAIK, typical filesystems don't support multiple, different
> files with identical name under the same directory...
No, they don't. The lkarmafs filesystem does though!
I'll submit a bugfix later this evening.
Keith.
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