On 05/16/2010 09:51 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2010, Peng Yu wrote: > >> I tried the following command to create a dir with '/' in the name. >> But it only create a directory with name 'm'. Is there a way to make a >> directory with '/' in the name? >> >> mkdir m\/\/ > > There are two characters that cannot be in a file or directory > name: / and NUL.
And the Austin Group (the people in charge of POSIX) are considering adding a third forbidden byte in the next revision of POSIX: the newline character. Help in formulating that adjustment to the standard would be appreciated on the austin group lists (membership is free). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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