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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:10:47 -0400
From: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
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To: Jack Stone <jack@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: Versioning file system
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Jack Stone wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Chris Snook wrote:
>>> I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method
>>> that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything.  With this
>>> method, userspace tools will have to be taught that : is suddenly a
>>> special character.
>> Not to mention that the character historically used for this purpose is
>> ; (semicolon.)
> 
> But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands.
> Using ; would defiantly break userspace
> 
> Jack
> 

I can escape the semicolon just fine in bash.  In fact, tab-completion will do 
this automatically.  That's really a non-issue.  It just means that anyone who 
wants to use this feature would have to know what they're doing, which I believe 
is your goal, right?

	-- Chris
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