On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
And there really isn't any reason one cannot
create filenames with
slashes in them in UNIX. The only OS I know of that completely
prohibits it is Windows.
Even Windoze can't stop us from creating files with "invalid" filenames.
You can also create a file named *.*
(getting rid of it may be harder)
Except, in UNIX, one can have a completely *valid* filename with slashes
in it. Or almost any other character in the system character-set really.
Peace... Sridhar