On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus > Allowed characters in filenames Unicode, any character, including NUL. OS > APIs may limit some characters for legacy reasons > All this asserts is that the on-disk format of HFS+ uses length-delimited strings. The second sentence makes it clear that you are not guaranteed to be able to create or access all filenames that can be stored on disk via the OS. (I think there are actually examples of disk corruption causing this. Not that it's surprising; there are examples of disk corruption flipping a filename character to '/' on Unix filesystems.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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