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Linux even allows filenames with end-of-transmission characters in them, which is a choice I'd question long before I start questioning newlines!

• gpvos 5y ago
  EOT or ctrl-D only has significance when typed into a tty. Once it has turned into a character it is as harmless as any other byte value, it doesn't end anything by itself.
  • dataflow 5y ago
    I'm aware, but it nevertheless doesn't make any sense to have it in a file name.
    • gpvos 5y ago
      I'm just saying that it makes exactly as much sense as ctrl-E or any other control char, it has no special status.
      • dataflow 5y ago
        There are quite a few ASCII control characters [1] that could make more sense than EOT, e.g., \t, \n, \e, etc. But yes, EOT is not the only nonsensical character that you could put in a file name, and I never claimed such. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character#In_ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character#In_ASCII
  • moring 5y ago
    Doesn't the article show that newline isn't harmless at all? Of course EOT doesn't end anything by itself, nor does 0x0a end a line by itself -- all that happens through code that interprets those characters in a particular way, so talking about the "danger" of a character in absence of any code that operates on it is meaningless. In the presence of code, on the other hand, "harmless" in the extreme sense means "there exists no code that will act up when presented this character", which the article shows to be wrong.