On 8/23/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > I don't think we allow newlines in keynames... A slash always indicates > a manifest/container lookup (except the first one in an SSK). How did > plan9 deal with directories then? I suppose it'd have to escape these > characters?
The shell gets confused, of course, and needs to escape many special characters, but the system calls are OK with any valid utf-8. Walking directories one level at a time means slashes don't confuse the OS (though they would the user and shell, of course). And the file name length limit is 4KB, IIRC. --Joel
