On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 at 01:40, Glenn Linderman wrote:
Yes. My suggested use of ? is a visible character that is illegal in Windows
file names, thus causing no valid Windows file names to be visually mangled.
It is also a character that should be avoided in POSIX names because:
1) it is known to be illegal on Windows, and thus non-portable
2) it is hard to write globs that match ? without allowing matches of other
characters as well
3) it must be quoted to specify it on a command line
That said, someone provided a case where it is "easy" to get ? in POSIX file
names. The remaining question is whether that is a reasonable use case, a
frequent use case, or a stupid use case; and whether the resulting visible
Reasonable I don't know, but frequent (FSDO frequent) and out of
our control yes. It happens often when downloading files with wget,
for example.
--David
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