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From: G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com
Subject: [9fans] allowing space (ASCII 0x20) in file names
Date: Wed,  8 Apr 1998 16:54:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980408215451.PRXcR9rNx7NEw7DNbdU4U3qWm8cXLlA_LC_G9jDHeTU@z> (raw)

>From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>

>> The problem is that the RFC2060 "International Mailbox Naming
>> Convention" has one more character in its alphabet than Plan9
>> allows in names so there is no place to map the space.
>
>There are more problems than that.  I'm pretty sure RFC2060 doesn't
>specify a name length, and Plan9 limits you to 27 bytes.  So you're
>going to have to keep some sort of translation table between IMAP
>names and Plan9 names anyway.  

I think each component limited to 27 octets is ok.  Now what is fun
is the namespace starting with a '#'!  (not a real problem, just strip
it or use ./#blah.)

>If this limit wasn't there and you were content to keep the mailbox
>names in encoded form (probably a nice choice, since then you never
>have to decode or encode them) you could substitute 0x7F for space
>in the Plan9 names and you'd be all set -- both are one byte in
>UTF-8, and RFC2060 can't have raw 7Fs while Plan9 can't have raw spaces.

Hold on, /sys/src/9/port/chan.c excludes 0x7f even though
/sys/src/fs/port/dentry.c doesn't.  Should we allow 0x7f?

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             reply	other threads:[~1998-04-08 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-04-08 21:54 G.David [this message]
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1998-04-14 15:18 Russ
1998-04-14 15:16 Tom
1998-04-14 13:50 Rob
1998-04-14 13:35 Elliott.Hughes
1998-04-14 13:04 Russ
1998-04-14  9:50 Elliott.Hughes
1998-04-14  9:08 Elliott.Hughes
1998-04-14  6:38 Nigel
1998-04-14  6:24 forsyth
1998-04-14  5:33 forsyth
1998-04-13 23:03 geoff
1998-04-13 13:50 G.David
1998-04-13  6:00 geoff
1998-04-12  3:27 ozan
1998-04-10 14:49 G.David
1998-04-10 14:43 forsyth
1998-04-10  4:04 geoff
1998-04-10  1:03 G.David
1998-04-09 23:44 Tom
1998-04-09 22:08 G.David
1998-04-09  3:10 G.David
1998-04-08 23:56 G.David
1998-04-08 22:05 Rob
1998-04-08 20:32 Russ
1998-04-08 19:58 G.David
1998-04-08 17:45 Tom
1998-04-08 17:08 Russ
1998-04-08 16:56 G.David

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