From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] simple question: multiple rename
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:59:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac0df35ef616cc5888c375b293b88aaf@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d3530220906181554o529dbbdbm7861d3acf4f8184c@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu Jun 18 18:55:30 EDT 2009, slawmaster@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:01 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> 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
> >
>
> According to intro(5), \0 is illegal in a 9P text string. "The NUL
> character is illegal in all text strings in 9P, and is therefore
> excluded from file names, user names, and so on." I'm assuming from
> this that Thou Shall Not Use NUL In Filenames.
note the spelling of creat. intro(5) does not apply to unix.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-18 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 19:58 Rudolf Sykora
2009-06-05 20:04 ` Martin Harriss
2009-06-05 20:07 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-06-08 7:50 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-06-08 9:35 ` Russ Cox
2009-06-16 11:51 ` roger peppe
2009-06-16 12:00 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 12:43 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-16 12:52 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 14:07 ` Russ Cox
2009-06-16 14:40 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 23:00 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-16 23:01 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-17 14:34 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-18 22:54 ` John Floren
2009-06-18 22:59 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-06-16 15:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-06-16 15:31 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 22:57 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-16 15:55 ` john
2009-06-16 17:19 ` Tim Newsham
2009-06-16 23:05 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-08 9:45 ` Martin Neubauer
2009-06-08 10:40 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-06-16 18:34 Francisco J Ballesteros
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