Re: [9fans] frogs and osx

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

It's also a pity that you'll need to rewrite your code to handle two  
different types of delimiters then, or add a dellim argument like in  
Brdstr. The UNIX philosophy says to do what's smaller and faster, not  
what's better (which is why I don't like it).

I haven't seen a reason to use the format "icon\rname" in an OS X  
directory. Why not just store the information in the  
folder's .DS_store file (which has every other Finder credential)?  
Ahh, the mysteries of my iMac...

On Jan 4, 2008, at 2:24 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

>
> On 2008-Jan-3, at 19:29 , Russ Cox wrote:
>
>> In addition to NUL, surely / should be illegal!
>> I certainly wouldn't want \n in file names; \r seems just too close.
>
> Pathological egregiousness?
>
> There is only one true separator, and that is '/'. In the context  
> of pathnames, '/' is NUL as per C strings. NUL in pathnames is  
> silly, but allowed, as per pathnames.
>
> It makes no sense, but if you can push a NUL into a pathname, you  
> should deal with the result. It's a pity the intermediate code has  
> to do so as well ...