No they don't; MS-DOS supports `/' as a directory separator as well
as `\' (the version of DR-DOS that Atari used on the ST doesn't, but
that's a pretty trivial detail); all Linux needs to worry about is
making sure that `\' doesn't get written into a filename on a fat
filesystem. (The only place I could see wanting to map `/' to `\'
would be if you wanted to write scripts that worked on both dos and
Linux, for that highly sought after port of COMMAND.COM to Linux.)
The idea of pushing a filesystem-specific name translation up into the
upper levels of the vfs doesn't seem like the most sensible way of
doing things; if I was to write a files-11 filesystem (in living
rad-50) for Linux, I'd certainly not want to push the fascist naming
rules anywhere outside that particular filesystem.
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