Re: [9fans] acme question + diffs for kfs, fs and plumbing

[Dave <dave@dave.tj>]

...so clearly, there's no way to distinguish between a file 'a b' and a
file 'a␣b' in a remote filesystem if we replace ' ' with '␣' upon
importing to our system :-(

 - Dave


Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote:
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> There's no reason.
> I though of using ☺, but I think it's more
> usual in file names than ␣.
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> AFAIK, VFAT uses Unicode for its long file names, so I see no reason
> why ␣ shouldn't be allowed there.
> 
>  - Dave
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> Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote:
> > 
> > : Wrong!  What if files 'a b' and 'a_b' both exist on the foreign
> > : system?  Back to the drawing board, everyone, the problem needs
> > : another, slightly more focussed iteration.
> > 
> > I'm renaming ' ' with ␣ in u9fs
> > There's no problem doing that since there's no ␣
> > in outside file names.
> > 
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