Re: Versioning file system

[Jack Stone]

Chris Snook wrote:
> Jack Stone wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Chris Snook wrote:
>>>> I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method
>>>> that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything.  With this
>>>> method, userspace tools will have to be taught that : is suddenly a
>>>> special character.
>>> Not to mention that the character historically used for this purpose is
>>> ; (semicolon.)
>>
>> But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands.
>> Using ; would defiantly break userspace
>>
>> Jack
>>
> 
> I can escape the semicolon just fine in bash.  In fact, tab-completion
> will do this automatically.  That's really a non-issue.  It just means
> that anyone who wants to use this feature would have to know what
> they're doing, which I believe is your goal, right?

I didn't realise this. Would ; break userspace if it was used as the
delimiter?

This discussion may be academic as this design is looking less and less
useful/workable.

Jack

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