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Re: cvs2svn change_path crash

From: Robert Spier <rspier_at_pobox.com>
Date: 2003-09-12 22:58:33 CEST

Linux.

/tmp]# mkdir 'foo \\ sdf'
/tmp]# ls -l foo*
total 0
/tmp]# echo foo*
foo \ sdf
/tmp]# touch 'foo \ bar'
/tmp]# echo foo*
foo \ bar
/tmp]# ls -l foo*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 13:57 foo \ bar

At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:49:28 -0700,
Jack Repenning wrote:
>
> At 9:37 AM +0200 9/12/03, Faller, Gyula wrote:
> > :)) MacOS 9, VMS (if I remember correctly), and even Unix.
> > Altough this latter means it is impossible to parse correctly a
> >Unix path in any way.
>
> Last time I looked, there was no way to get a "/" into a Unix file
> name, because there are no kernel APIs that accept "file names," only
> "paths," so the "/" always gets interpreted as a delimiter. I've
> heard tales of bugs, generally involving external storage devices,
> but those are bugs, they don't count.
> --
> -==-
> Jack Repenning
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