On 12 Nov 2017, at 9:36 (-0500), David Ledger wrote:
We’ve wandered off-topic a bit (a lot?) here, but there is no
‘on-disk’ path delimiter.
Semantic quibble. In HFS+ ':' is a "never-used-in-a-name-on-disk"
character because Carbon and the VFS abstraction layer for HFS+ use it
as a path delimiter.
But in defense of my sloppy wording, I cite Wilfredo Sanchez (who helped
create the needed bodges) at
http://www.wsanchez.net/papers/USENIX_2000/:
So on disk the separator is a colon
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