Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:51:12AM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2009-06-08, Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net> wrote:
> > The <slash> is locale dependent. Thus a file created in an other locales
> > could contain the character that in current locale is interpreted as
> ><slash>.
> > BTW with pathname resolution rules, the file could not be acceded, but
> > AFAIK the non pathname resolution system call permit <slash>
> > (like readdir).
> >
> > > [http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html 3.169]
> >
> > You are linking the old posix specification. On the new, point 3.170, you
> > see that now <slash> is written between angle parenthesis, to emphasize
> > that <slash> is to be interpreted as locale dependent character.
>
> So actually I just got hold of the new POSIX specification by using
> IEEEexplore at university. (Is it really true that you can't get it
> freely!?)
Yes. However, you can get SUSv3 (which is POSIX) from
http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/
You can also download the entire spec as a tarball, but
I can't offhand remember the URI for that.
[SUSv2 and POSIX were merged to create SUSv3 and an
updated POSIX spec, so the current SUSv3 and POSIX are
the exact same document.]
Regards,
Roger
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