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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:59:51 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] simple question: multiple rename
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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