Legal filenames (was Re: [wplug] samba back over network)

Lance Tost ltost at pobox.com
Wed Mar 24 13:57:57 EST 2004


On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Brian Sammon wrote:
> > What's an example of an invalid filename?  I have plenty of files in ext3 
> > and jfs filesystems with spaces and punctuation, if that's what you mean.
> 
> A file with a (forward) slash in the name?
> That might be legal in Windoze.

Not according to this:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs/concepts/filename_namespace.html

I guess the only instance I can think of where there might be an issue is 
with foreign characters... 
http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/#how_to_repair_samba_files

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>




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