> No one who has thought through all the issues thinks its a good idea. As far as it goes, no reasonable person thinks that even having spaces in filenames is

> No one who has thought through all the issues thinks its a good idea. As far as it goes, no reasonable person thinks that even having spaces in filenames is a good idea. Nonetheless, POSIX is what it is, and if you're writing a program meant to be generally useful, you can't just handle the POSIX filenames that you like--you have to handle them all. There are many consequences for failing this, but the most obvious ones are buggy behaviour in general, and security holes in particular. This cannot be ignored or wished away.