filenames with the high bit set.

[der Mouse]

In article <4540 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, wesommer at athena.mit.edu (William E. Sommerfeld) writes:
> In article <48993 at sun.uucp> guy at gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>> (BTW, you *can't* create files that have names with truly arbitrary
>> bytes in them; '/' and '\0' are not valid in UNIX file names [...].)

> Yes, but...

> If you're running NFS, the NFS _server_ (at least the one we're
> running here) will let you put `/' in filenames, since it works at
> the inode & filename level, not the pathname level.

> To get it to do this, you have to write a user-level program which
> sends RPC requests directly to the NFS server.

...and on a non-NFS system you can write a program which scribbles on
the raw disk and creates directory entries with slashes in them.  It's
fairly closely analogous.

And about equally useful (or, rather, equally useless).

					der Mouse

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