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On 03/15/2010 03:43 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>> So it's probably a dead end to try to suggest disallowing of '/'?
>> Unfortunately it's not easy to fix all problems with directories. For
>> starters devfs doesn't support removal of directories at all.
> 
> I have no idea why "/" would be allowed - it isn't in regular filenames
> so why would this be special? I wote to remove slashes.

Please be very careful with such a change. I rely on this behaviour
pretty heavily, to keep things hierarchically arranged. Such a change
would break pretty much every box I run.

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