Re: [RFC] Canonical Paths

Marcus Comstedt wrote:

>On a system where '.' denotes the current working directory, then
>
[...]

I'm beginning to think that maybe we _should_ forbid certain characters
in filenames. Why? because not doing so will create an interoperability
nightmare for users. My candidates would be:

    * '/', '\', ':' -- the most common directory separators (never mind
      the strangeness of VMS paths); ':' also saves us grief on Windows.
    * '.', '..' and '.svn': these names should be forbidden, for obvious
      reasons. Actually, I'm not sure about '.svn'; that could be
      configurable in the long term.
    * Maybe other chars. Windows forbids '\', '/', ':', '*'. '?'. '<',
      '>' and '|'.

I know this may seem restrictive, but we should at least have an option
to _warn_ about such characters, to save people from further grief.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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