Re: [Bacula-devel] SQL stupidity

[Phil S. <al...@ca...>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:22:10PM -0400, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:22:28PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > Of course, this is going to be a little difficult on Unix, because
> > almost any character is legal in a Unix filename if escaped.  I'm not
> > sure I know of any character which MAY NOT, period, be used in a Unix
> > filename.
> 
> The only illegal filename character on Unix is the "/".  Well, and
> \0 -- which is implied because the C string is defined to end with
> a \0 character, and the base ABI for dealing with these strings is
> the C API.
> 
> It has nothing to do with escaping any characters.  The filesystem
> doesn't have the concept of escaping a character.  That's a shell
> contruct only, which is only related to the filenames in that filenames
> sometimes show up as arguments passed to programs, and that shells
> tend to have filename globbing functions.
> 
> (You probably knew that, but I figured I'd make sure to clarify
> anyway.  :-)

Well, yeah.  :)

So, if one was to go that route, the string '/:\' would be an illegal
filename on Mac, Windows, and Unix.  (And VMS, I think....?  My
memories of VMS are hazy.)


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