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Re: cvs2svn change_path crash

From: Robert Spier <rspier_at_pobox.com>
Date: 2003-09-12 22:59:41 CEST

Brain fart. The slash is leaning the wrong direction.

I'll go back to waiting for informix to finish spinning now.

-R

At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:58:33 -0700,
Robert Spier wrote:
>
>
> 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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