From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:01:43 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <6e2ced74cce329819a96ef2789153425@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <20090617000046.0e739935.eekee57@fastmail.fm> References: <20090616134331.e7114d5e.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <20090617000046.0e739935.eekee57@fastmail.fm> 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: 0bfba7dc-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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