From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed,  8 Apr 1998 11:56:33 -0500
From: G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com
Subject: [9fans] allowing space (ASCII 0x20) in file names
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Why is the space (ASCII 0x20) excluded from file names?  This is done
both in /sys/src/9/port/chan.c and /sys/src/fs/port/dentry.c.

/sys/src/fs/port/dentry.c disallows <= 0x20.
/sys/src/9/port/chan.c disallows <= 0x20, '/' (for obvious reasons)
and 0x7f (not so obvious).

Is the idea to disallow unprintables?

I was just looking at IMAP (RFC2060), and it specifies modified
UTF-7 for mailbox names.  The only incompatability is the ASCII
space (0x20).

So, I was wondering, is there a problem allowing the space?

P.S.  I plagiarized the idea for this sig from another, but it is cute.

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