Chris Snook wrote: > Jack Stone wrote: >> H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> Chris Snook wrote: >>>> I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method >>>> that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything. With this >>>> method, userspace tools will have to be taught that : is suddenly a >>>> special character. >>> Not to mention that the character historically used for this purpose is >>> ; (semicolon.) >> >> But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands. >> Using ; would defiantly break userspace >> >> Jack >> > > I can escape the semicolon just fine in bash. In fact, tab-completion > will do this automatically. That's really a non-issue. It just means > that anyone who wants to use this feature would have to know what > they're doing, which I believe is your goal, right? I didn't realise this. Would ; break userspace if it was used as the delimiter? This discussion may be academic as this design is looking less and less useful/workable. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
