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From: cs@kanawha.Sun.COM (Carl Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Yes, Virginia, you *can* have UNIX filenames containing '/'
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Date: 12 Dec 88 19:45:16 GMT
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Reply-To: cs@sun.UUCP (Carl Smith)
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> But it would be nice if NFS had some mechanism for telling clients what
> the restrictions are. ;-(

	There is a provision for doing this in version 3 of the protocol.  The
NFSPROC_GETFSINFO procedure returns, among other things, a list of characters
not allowed in a file name.

> The email address for sending comments on the next
> protocol (version 3), is sun!cs, or cs@sun.com.

	The correct address is actually sun!nfs3, or nfs3@sun.com.

			Carl