From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Horst von Brand Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:50:05 -0400 Message-ID: <200409101750.i8AHo5qx005157@localhost.localdomain> References: Cc: miller@techsource.com, reiser@namesys.com, Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk, jamie@shareable.org, bunk@fs.tum.de, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Wayne Scott In-Reply-To: Message from Wayne Scott of "Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:50:40 EST." <20040910.105040.30177815.wscott@bitmover.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Timothy Miller said: > > Everyone likes ':', so we'd have "problem/shoe:size". (Don't bother to > > complain about files which have : in them, because I already know it > > sucks, but it's an example.) > > [[ I just joined this discussion, so pardon if this is already known.]] > One advantage of ':' is that portable programs already have to avoid > it because of NTFS alternate data streams: Portable programs working on POSIX don't give a damn that C:, CON:, etc are reserved in MS-DOS. Windows warts shouldn't infect Linux. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513