On Jan 17, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
[ Not just for filenames, by the way - this is one of the reasons I think it is so *important* to not corrupt filenames, exactly because this is in no way filename-specific at all, and filenames are generally "textualdata" exactly the same way a text-file is.
I just don't understand why you insist that the filename is data, when it is clearly metadata. The filename has two purposes: the identify the file to the user, and to provide a handle with which to reference the file contents. The specific byte sequence is in no way sacred.
-Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@xxxxxx http://www.tildesoft.com
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