Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

Daniel Phillips (phillips@innominate.de)
Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:41:51 +0100

Michael Rothwell wrote:
> Unfortunately, unix allows everything but "/" in filenames. This was
> probably a mistake, as it makes it nearly impossible to augment the
> namespace, but it is the reality.

For some reason totally beyond my comprehension // inside a file name is
taken to be the same as /, but if it wasn't it could be the stream
separator. *sigh*

--
Daniel
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