4 Mar
2008
4 Mar
'08
8:30 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
It was (an older) AIX on JFS. I don't remember exactly what I screwed
up to do it, but it was something fairly bizarre.
Peace... Sridhar
> 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".