On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:26:14PM -0400, Joel Salomon wrote: > On 8/23/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > >I don't think we allow newlines in keynames... A slash always indicates > >a manifest/container lookup (except the first one in an SSK). How did > >plan9 deal with directories then? I suppose it'd have to escape these > >characters? > > The shell gets confused, of course, and needs to escape many special > characters, but the system calls are OK with any valid utf-8. Walking > directories one level at a time means slashes don't confuse the OS > (though they would the user and shell, of course). And the file name > length limit is 4KB, IIRC.
Sounds a lot like linux then, apart from the filename limit. > > --Joel -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060831/f5ea3783/attachment.pgp>
