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Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces



On 2009-06-08, Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org> wrote:
> PS: on POSIX you can expect all characters but NULL in filename
> ('/' is a very special beast: you cannot create a file containing the
> '/' in current locale, but if it was created in other locales there
> are not (theoretically) problems.

Wrong: The characters composing the name may be selected from the set of all
character values excluding the slash character and the null byte.

[http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html 3.169]

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern


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