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Sadly you can't please everyone :-). The explanation is further down on the page. If I wrote in that recommended order, many other developers would complain "I
by dwheeler 3y ago
Sadly you can't please everyone :-).
The explanation is further down on the page. If I wrote in that recommended order, many other developers would complain "I don't want all the details, just tell me what to do".
I wrote it this way because some developers just want the tl;dr version, that is, they "just want the answer"
- eviks 3y agoWhat do you think the chances are of removing the bag of bytes filename design bug in another decade?
- dwheeler 3y agoLow. It wouldn't be hard to create an LSM for Linux to reject file creation of certain filenames, though. Then at least sone security-minded people could enable it. The POSIX folks are finally adding formal support for null terminated filenames in filename lists (which is what a lot of people are doing). So that's something.