On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:13:33 -0500, Lars T. Kyllingstad
<public@kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:02:44 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:16:36 -0500, Jonathan M Davis
<jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote:
I can understand if the path stuff
can't deal with / or \ in file names (that's probably not worth trying
to get to
work right), but it _should_ be able to handle directories with dots in
them and
files with no extension.
/ and \ are not legal in names on any filesystem that I know of.
-Steve
On a *NIX machine, try
touch "c:\\foo\\bar"
You may be surprised. ;)
bleh... that seems useless :) I purposely checked FAT before posting,
because I was sure Unix disallowed backslashes, I wanted to make sure FAT
didn't allow slashes.
Holy crap, something that DOS got right and Unix didn't!
From this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename, it appears that
really, the only disallowed character in unix filenames is '/'. Even '*'
is allowed as a filename. How... horrible.
-Steve
