Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!orc!bu.edu!nntp-read!jbw From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Unix filenames Message-ID: Date: 28 Oct 90 22:51:53 GMT References: <1990Oct25.144606.4971@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department Lines: 13 worley@compass.uucp (Dale Worley) writes: Why doesn't someone upgrade the kernel so it rejects whitespace in file names? It's completely rediculous that files can have nearly unprintable names! Even better, why doesn't someone fix the kernel so that it allows arbitrary 8-bit strings for file names? It's completely ridiculous that 0 and 47 are invalid values for characters in file names! It's even more ridiculous that there's a restriction on the length of file names! -- Joe Wells