Re: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 19:10:06 +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:54:15PM -0400, Guy wrote:
> > You said:
> > "It's withholding function from the user because he might abuse it and hurt 
> > himself."
> > 
> > I say:
> > You say "user", you forget that Linux is a multi user OS.  What if another
> > user created a file in /tmp that effected another user, or root?
> > 
> > This is a security risk and maybe a bug.  This would not be the first bug
> > that someone depends on!  So we stop fixing bugs because of compatibility
> > issues?
> 
> What security risk?  You mean running applications written by lusers?
> That's a serious one, of course, but how would anything short of rm(1)
> and forced (re)education of idiots who wrote the crap in question help
> it?

I agree with this.

> BTW, if your terminal is misconfigured badly enough to feed program output
> back as input, you really ought to fix it, and not just because of ls(1)...

That means, that the terminal should never respond to any escape
sequences sent to it. In reality, it responds to some...

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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