H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Chris Snook wrote: >> I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method >> that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything. With this >> method, userspace tools will have to be taught that : is suddenly a >> special character. > > Not to mention that the character historically used for this purpose is > ; (semicolon.)
But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands. Using ; would defiantly break userspace Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
