Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:11:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@hanse.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warning: Change to netatalk's file name handling Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980825140853.1236N-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980825220803.25049B-100000@transit.hanse.de>
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please check with jallison@eng.sgi.com (or if that bounces get back to me) he has patches we use at whistle to make netatalk do various code pages in a manner compatible with samba (which he is a primary developer of) I think his patches already do something similar to what you want (but I'm not sure) julian On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Stefan Bethke wrote: > As you might be aware, Mac's tend to use characters in file names usually > not used on UN*X systems, namely in the range \0x01-\0x1F and \0x7f-\0xff. > > Especially annoing is the "Icon\0x0D" for Custom Icons on Folders or > Volumes. > > I will put a patch in the netatalk port that maps all characters outside > of \0x20 to \0x7E (aka isprint()) to the equivalent hex ":xx" sequence. > > This will break access to files which names contain characters in the > range \0x01 to \0x1F; they no longer will be accessible from any AFP > client (they will be visible, but the client will get a "file not found" > error when trying to access it). > > If nobody objects, I'll commit this the next few days. > > Cheers, > Stefan > > -- > Stefan Bethke > Muehlendamm 12 Phone: +49-40-256848, +49-177-3504009 > D-22087 Hamburg <stefan.bethke@hanse.de> > Hamburg, Germany <stb@freebsd.org> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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