Re: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Wed, 2004-07-21 13:25:30 -0700, Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>
wrote in message <OFBA20EFDD.E3EC0CD9-ON88256ED8.006CC054-88256ED8.0070229F@us.ibm.com>:

> I wouldn't stop at nonprinting characters.  Punctuation, especially spaces 
> and tabs, cause a lot of trouble too, for very little gain.
> 
> As I've said, I don't want to take away your weird filenames.  But I'd 
> like to get rid of mine.  I'd rather have an untar fail than create a 
> filename that's going to cause me grief.

Where's the problem? That can (at least for dynamically linked
applications -- most of what you use is that:) be done with a little
LD_PRELOAD library.

MfG, JBG

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