(Headers set purely to prevent my receiving multiple copies of replies.
This is a tangent, and I do not really expect to receive any on-list
replies at all.)
John Cowan wrote:
Bob Proulx scripsit:
The problem is the same as always, filenames with embedded newlines
in them.
IMHO, people who embed newlines into filenames deserve to lose. But
that's just me.
Additionally, the notion that it's legitimate for text files to
contain \0 is equally silly.
But I don't make the rules.
Both of those seem silly to me, as well (though the latter less than the
former) - and yet one thing which does not seem silly, and which indeed
I have wanted on more than one occasion, seems to be adamantly
forbidden: filenames containing the directory separator.
I have heard it claimed that this is done on technical grounds, but I
have yet to hear - or, for that matter (despite some minor degree of
effort devoted to the subject over time), imagine - any technical
obstacle to this which I have not been able to come up with a
comparatively trivial way to surmount.
--
The Wanderer
Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any
side of it.
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
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