From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: filenames that can be safely stolen (was Re: starting with ".." could break stuff) Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 10:05:22 -0800 Message-ID: <406EFCE2.8000108@namesys.com> References: <200404010546.i315kEvY019805@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> <20040402035617.GC2158@zero> <8765ciqr6v.fsf@uhoreg.ca> <20040402220250.GB4668@rahul.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040402220250.GB4668@rahul.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Bennett Todd Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Bennett Todd wrote: >2004-04-02T16:29:12 Hubert Chan: > > >>Tom> i bet there's a few apps that, when trying to skip .., only check >>Tom> the first two chars of the name. this may or may not be a problem. >> >>Then those apps are broken. ..foo has always been a valid filename >>(though highly uncommon). ..metas doesn't introduce anything new -- it >>only makes ..files more common. >> >> > >Yup. > >For another example, AFS steals "@sys"; it's a special black-magic >voodoo name that acts like a symlink to a machine-specific value, >used to set up baroque symlink trees so one uniform network >filesystem can support dispatching to appropriate versions of >machine-specific files like executables. > >So another possibility worth considering might be @metas, with the >prior art of AFS to cite to people who complain about theoretical >problems:-). > >-Bennett > > i care more about people 20 years from now complaining that reiserfs is ugly in its aesthetics than about unreal problems. punctuation in method names is uglier than "metas" -- Hans