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

[Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>]

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It's ok if the name contains '?', it's just inconvenient but
it's ok. It's like that inconvenient "'chk" name I had.

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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme question + diffs for kfs, fs and plumbing
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:28:57 +0200
Message-ID: <20020709112856.L20312@cackle.proxima.alt.za>

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:42:04AM +0200, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote:
> 
> I'm renaming ' ' with ? in u9fs
> There's no problem doing that since there's no ?
> in outside file names.

There could be:

-rw-r--r--   1 lucio  staff         0 Jul  9 11:22 t?uch

produced by "touch t\?uch" on my NetBSD host.  This is from
"man 2 intro" on NetBSD 1.5.2:

     File Name
             Names consisting of up to 255 (MAXNAMELEN) characters may be used
             to name an ordinary file, special file, or directory.

             These characters may be selected from the set of all ASCII char-
             acter excluding 0 (NUL) and the ASCII code for `/' (slash).  (The
             parity bit, bit 7, must be 0.)

             Note that it is generally unwise to use `*', `?', `[' or `]' as
             part of file names because of the special meaning attached to
             these characters by the shell.

It needn't be up to date, but it's a safe indicator.

++L