On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:51 -0500, Steve Simmons wrote: > On Nov 27, 2006, at 6:09 AM, Arne Wiebalck wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > browsing through the documentation and the code for some > > time, the only limitation I found for volume names is the > > length restriction to 22 chars (and the forbidden suffices > > for RO and BK volumes). > > > > I found no restriction on the character set for > > volume names (like excluding some special characters like > > '/' or '&', for instance) ... are there any such > > limitations? And if yes, can anyone point me to the place > > in the code where these restrictions are checked? > > Dan Hyde and I had occasion to look this up a few days ago. There are > definitely restrictions on what characters can be used, the allowed > set is a-z, A-Z, 0-9, period, dash and underscore.
Thanks. Just for completeness: a colleague of mine (thanks, Rainer!) also pointed me to the place where this is defined: in src/vlserver/vlprocs.c a preprocessor directive defines LEGALCHARS which contains exactly the characters you mentioned. Cheers, Arne _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
