On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 20:12 +0100, 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. Then the user has to quote the ;. BTW `find` use a lone ';' since ages to terminate it's '-exec' thingy. > Using ; would defiantly break userspace Only for buggy written shell scripts/commands. Who cares? Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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
