On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:14:50PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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 So you're suggesting that we should rely on userspace being bug free and always only using valid unicode sequences in it's names? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group -- 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