Re: [OT] AW: Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline in RegistryCooker.pm

On 28 February 2013 13:29, André Warnier <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> ...
>
>> I am pretty shure, I tested the capability of filenames on a Linux (ext2)
>> or Solaris (ufs) filesystem, a long time ago
>> The outcome was, that you can use 254 different characters, except the
>> '\0' and the '/'.
>>
>> But I agree, it is an annoyance it should be forbidden. ;)
>>
>
> The person who invented that spaces and other unprintable characters were
> allowed in filenames and paths should be found, his PC and iPhone should be
> confiscated, he should be exiled to an isolated island in the middle of the
> Arctic Ocean, and he should be nominated for an IgNobel.  The person at
> Microsoft who decided that "C:\Program Files" was an acceptable place to
> install programs should be sent along as his butler.

What a stupid thing to say.

You can use those things on pretty much every file system and OS. Ever
since your grandmother started using a computer and thought it was
pretty darn stupid for young whippersnappers like yourself to tell her
that she couldnt name a file "good recipies".

A special place in hell is reserved for programmers that write code
that assumes that spaces and other unprintables are illegal in a
filename.

Yves







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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"