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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Slashes in filenames?
Message-ID: <1991May13.092555.24893@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 09:25:55 GMT
References: <26038@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <26038@adm.brl.mil>, l2!adm!news writes:
> From:  LELAND STEINKE, 242-4633

> 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?

Because the NFS server is hooked into the filesystem below that check.

> If *IX were as modular, well, structured, well, well-behaved as it
> were supposed to be, shouldn't these things never happen, [...]?

Right.  If the world were perfect there'd be no problems.

					der Mouse

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