From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:45:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:44:27 -0500 Received: from hermes.mixx.net ([212.84.196.2]:28179 "HELO hermes.mixx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:44:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3A708F8F.17426D2@innominate.de> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:41:51 +0100 From: Daniel Phillips Organization: innominate X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Rothwell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix In-Reply-To: <004701c081ef$e32dcb90$8501a8c0@gromit> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Rothwell wrote: > Unfortunately, unix allows everything but "/" in filenames. This was > probably a mistake, as it makes it nearly impossible to augment the > namespace, but it is the reality. For some reason totally beyond my comprehension // inside a file name is taken to be the same as /, but if it wasn't it could be the stream separator. *sigh* -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/