RE: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names

["Guy" <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>]

Again, your missing the point.
Sure it I want to do "ls|cat" or "ls|more" I can.  But this simple, very
common set of commands should not be able to trash your system!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan-Benedict Glaw [mailto:jbglaw@lug-owl.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:26 AM
To: Joseph D. Wagner
Cc: 'Jan Hudec'; 'Matthew Wilcox'; 'Guy';
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk; 'Bryan Henderson';
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names

On Tue, 2004-07-20 17:16:52 -0500, Joseph D. Wagner
<theman@josephdwagner.info>
wrote in message <S266341AbUGTWQ7/20040720221700Z+361@vger.kernel.org>:
> > People don't type ls | cat by mistake. They do it on purpose, usualy.
> 
> But they shouldn't be able to do it at all, which is the whole original
> point of this discussion.  In other words, people shouldn't be able to
> do things that harm the system.

They *should* be able to do anything they want. It's Unix -- you're the
boss, system does what you request from it.

MfG, JBG

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