From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:34:59 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-Id: <20090617153459.6e5e357f.eekee57@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <6e2ced74cce329819a96ef2789153425@coraid.com> References: <20090616134331.e7114d5e.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <20090617000046.0e739935.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <6e2ced74cce329819a96ef2789153425@coraid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] simple question: multiple rename Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0c29b1a4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:01:43 -0400 erik quanstrom wrote: > > I forgot, / is actually illegal. I'm almost (but not quite) certain that \0 is legal, and if I understand my emacs correctly you may be able to type it as ctrl-space. It displays as ^@ in emacs. > > > > what system call do you use to create a file with \0 in the name? > i'm not really keeping up, but last i checked creat doesn't take > a filename length, and therefore the null will terminate the string. > > - erik > Ah you're right there. -- Ethan Grammatikidis The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer