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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: filenames with the high bit set.
Message-ID: <1074@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 07:56:29 GMT
References: <8120010@eecs.nwu.edu> <48993@sun.uucp> <4540@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <4540@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William E. Sommerfeld) writes:
> In article <48993@sun.uucp> guy@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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