Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:50:40 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <20040910.105040.30177815.wscott@bitmover.com>
To: miller@techsource.com
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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
From: Wayne Scott <wscott@bitmover.com>
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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
> Everyone likes ':', so we'd have "problem/shoe:size".  (Don't bother to 
> complain about files which have : in them, because I already know it 
> sucks, but it's an example.)

[[ I just joined this discussion, so pardon if this is already known.]]

One advantage of ':' is that portable programs already have to avoid
it because of NTFS alternate data streams:
  http://www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=archive&id=ntfs-streams

For example on an XP box with NTFS:

$ mkdir j
$ cd j
$ echo hi > foo:bar
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 wscott   Administ        0 Sep 10 10:45 foo
$ cat foo
$ cat foo:bar
hi
$ rm foo
$ cat foo:bar
cat: foo:bar: No such file or directory

-Wayne
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