4 Mar
2008
4 Mar
'08
8:05 a.m.
> And there really isn't any reason one cannot
create filenames with
> slashes in them in UNIX.
There is, actually: the API doesn't permit it. Unless your "filenames"
means pathnames (rather than pathname components), in which case it's
true but trivially uninteresting.
Some systems have APIs (or other interfaces, such as the NFS server
network interface) that permit getting a slash into a pathname
component, but to the extent that that's possible, I don't think it's
fair to call them Unix, because the Unix filesystem APIs all treat
slashes as pathname component separators.
True - you CAN create filenames with forward slashes
in them.
What OSes are you two using, and how are you creating these "filenames"
containing slashes? Whatever they are, in this respect, they certainly
aren't "Unix".
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