Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!adm!news From: STEINKEL%CAR1@leav-emh.army.mil Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Slashes in filenames? Message-ID: <26038@adm.brl.mil> Date: 16 Feb 91 18:30:35 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 17 From: LELAND STEINKE, 242-4633 Subject: Slashes in filenames? I must have missedsomething... If the prohibition on slashes in filenames is enforced by the kernel, how the bleep does NFS get them in there? If *IX were as modular, well, structured, well, well-behaved as it were supposed to be, shouldn't these things never happen, whether or not there is an exactly appropriate error code for it? Leland J. Steinke, Programmer/Analyst U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA 17013 * we make your life difficult, so you won't have to. * my Uncle isn't being represented by me right now...