Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > > I think "..." and ".meta" both serve as a logical delimiter. However > > some programs implement their own "..." which would make it clash with > > them. Naturally if some program created a directory called .meta we're > > equally screwed.
> I chose '....' (four dots) because it clashes with less, not three dots. Is this some kind of "My dots are more than yours" contest?! /None/ of them is safe. ".meta", "...", "....", ".this.has.five.dots." are all perfectly legal file (or directory) names, POSIXly. If any one of them won't do, none will. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
