Validating file names is not the filesystem job. In fact it's utterly stupid, a unix filename is a sequence of bytes without special meaning except for ., .., / and \0 -- 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