Slashes in file names

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Mon Feb 18 08:39:42 AEST 1991


>So SysV has allowed filenames with 8-bit set for ages.

Yup - in fact, that dates all the way back to V7, and even earlier (I
don't think V6 disallowed them, either - dunno if any of its
predecessors did).

>Sorry that I don't have access to BSD right now, but I wouldn't think
>that it was different.  Am I wrong?

It is different.  4.1BSD disallowed the character '/'|0200, and 4.2BSD
and successors disallowed any characters with the 8th bit set.



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