Subject: Re: Versioning file system
From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
To: Jack Stone <jack@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
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       akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
       alan <alan@clueserver.org>
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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:34:53 +0200
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On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 20:12 +0100, 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.

Then the user has to quote the ;. BTW `find` use a lone ';' since ages
to terminate it's '-exec' thingy.

> Using ; would defiantly break userspace

Only for buggy written shell scripts/commands. Who cares?

	Bernd
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