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A POSIX filename is a sequence of up to 255 bytes excluding NULL and / A reasonable person[1] might argue that this is too liberal. IMO the exclusion list sho
by brandmeyer 5y ago
A POSIX filename is a sequence of up to 255 bytes excluding NULL and /
A reasonable person[1] might argue that this is too liberal. IMO the exclusion list should be larger, but silently and automatically rewriting an application's filename into something else at creation time is too far.
[1]: https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html