Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@innominate.de)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 15:41:51 EST

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Michael Rothwell wrote:
> Unfortunately, unix allows everything but "/" in filenames. This was
> probably a mistake, as it makes it nearly impossible to augment the
> namespace, but it is the reality.

For some reason totally beyond my comprehension // inside a file name is
taken to be the same as /, but if it wasn't it could be the stream
separator. *sigh*

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Daniel
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