From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch-cctalk at 30below.com> Taking a look at the ext3 source (it's in my mental cache from the book project), there's no escaping of the '/' character. In __link_path_walk(), it clearly splits on '/' and doesn't look at the previous character at all. To bring it back on topic (and because I was curious), I just pulled out my copy of Lions and in 6th edition namei(), it's the same thing. It definitely loops looking for '/' with no regard to the previous character. So, the old and the new both do not recognize a file with '/' in the name. I'm not sufficiently motivated to look through the BSD FFS :-) BLS