Re: [BUG] NTFS code doesn't sanitize folder names sufficiently

2012-08-01 Thread Cody P Schafer
The solution to this would be to disallow creation of files and folders on NTFS drives containing illegal characters. Illegal characters with respect to Windows & the like are different from Illegal characters with respect to the NTFS filesystem structure. Looking at ntfs-3g(8) [yes, I'm aw

Re: [BUG] NTFS code doesn't sanitize folder names sufficiently

2012-07-27 Thread Calvin Walton
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 20:18 +0200, Marian Beermann wrote: > Hello everyone, > > today I noticed some very odd behaviour, which could lead people to > believe a loss of data, because it is possible to create directories > with backslashes in them. > > I am currently running kernel 3.5. > > To c

Re: [BUG] NTFS code doesn't sanitize folder names sufficiently

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Jones
Marian Beermann wrote: Hello everyone, today I noticed some very odd behaviour, which could lead people to believe a loss of data, because it is possible to create directories with backslashes in them. I am currently running kernel 3.5. To completly reproduce the problem to the full extend