Martin Wilck wrote on 19 Sep 2003 10:42:35 +0200: > Hey folks, I know it's not my business, but '...', ,',,', '_', '!', '@', > '-' ... is this really a serious discussion? What about '"' or even ' '?
No, they cause problems with various shell special characters. So you'd have to escape them with a preceeding backslash if you used them. That's awkward (even more than using a shifted letter like "_"). > There is enough cryptic stuff already in our file systems. Are you > prepared to answer tons of email asking what those cryptic files are > for, or suspecting crackers at work? Just explain to them that it's a new operating system and things are different there. If it's too annoying, we can stick a virtual readme file in all ,, directories explaining what it is. Maybe one for each language too :-) > Why don't you just call it '.reiserfs-metadata' or similar? Is it really > so important how many keystrokes the name takes? Why are you debating > about localization and, at the same, arguing about the position of > characters on your (U.S., I suppose) keyboard? .reiserfs-metadata is English. And it's also ReiserFS specific, while I want to name attributes in other fildirute style file systems too. Saving typing effort on teletype keyboards is an ancient Unix tradition. - Alex P.S. How about ".,"? Makes it hidden to older systems, yet isn't too hard to type.
