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From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: re: [9fans] blanks in names
Date: Thu,  4 Jul 2002 15:45:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110399.1025797535@GOLD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b8fddb88743e230927ca086d93d4df2@caldo.demon.co.uk>


I have a simpler solution.  If you don't like blanks in file names,
prohibit them again. (It's the 'frog' array in /sys/src/9/port/chan.c
that determines this.)  Servers that give you blanks will get caught
(although the failures will often be mysterious).  Fix those that
do by relabeling as Nemo suggests, although please not with a variant
invisible blank.  Something visible but rarely used, such as the
0x80 rune.

I enabled blanks because they kept appearing, everyone else accepts
them, and it seemed a challenge to find a good solution.  I still
prefer the quoting solution because it leaves the underlying stuff
alone, but it's easier to just say no.

-rob



  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-04 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-04  6:47 forsyth
2002-07-04 19:45 ` rob pike, esq. [this message]
2002-07-04 14:56   ` FJ Ballesteros
2002-07-04 16:47 rog
2002-07-04 17:06 ` FJ Ballesteros
2002-07-04 22:29 ` arisawa
2002-07-04 19:41 rob pike, esq.

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