Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:49:19 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued Message-ID: <199807070249.VAA00589@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <199807040226.TAA07461@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199807061332.JAA26291@lakes.dignus.com>
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In article <199807061332.JAA26291@lakes.dignus.com>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> wrote: >> I think that this is sufficiently unlikely given that there have been >> only two respondents that actually use '$' in names at all... That they know of. There are a number of programs that use user-provided strings as filenames. INN uses $ as a separator in message-IDs. Cnews uses the message-ID as part of a temporary file name. Put them together and make $ dangerous... boom. If it's possible to integrate the namespace into the filesystem and still achieve the desired result, it'd be a Good Thing to do it. -- This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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