Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename.

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Sun Feb 17 07:31:40 AEST 1991


In article <Feb.16.11.29.52.1991.575 at remus.rutgers.edu> rauscher at remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Rauscher) writes:
>Yeh, it's possible to type this but in almost all versions
>of Unix, you'll just get an error 'No such 
>file or directory' or something like it.  This will
>happen whether you're in a shell or application.

Look, guys, if you feel obligated to drag this discussion out,
you should go back and check the posting that started it.  The
problem is not that a user DESIRED to have a pathname COMPONENT
with a slash embedded in it; the problem is that a deficient
implementation ALLOWED one to be created, but it was much more
difficult to fix the situation once it had occurred.  If you
don't by now know how this could have occurred, you should not
be prolonging the discussion.



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