xargs / FS-maintenance question

[John Macdonald]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:54:11PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >
> >Now for those filenames that have null's in the name, well you will just
> >have to deal with those yourself. :)
> 
>     There can be no filename with NUL; it one of only two characters
>     not permitted in a filename.

To some extent, that is a shared decision of the filesystem and
the OS.  I can remember a bug in an early NFS implementation
that allowed Macintosh clients to create filenames that had
a slash in them.  (Slash is the other disallowed character.)
So, we ended up with files on a Unix filesystem that Unix
itself could not refer to, which could *only* be accessed and
managed by the Mac system.

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