Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!oliveb!sun!kanawha!cs From: cs@kanawha.Sun.COM (Carl Smith) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Yes, Virginia, you *can* have UNIX filenames containing '/' Message-ID: <80716@sun.uucp> Date: 9 Dec 88 03:55:58 GMT References: <5945@fluke.COM> <10176@swan.ulowell.edu> <1162@elxsi.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cs@sun.UUCP (Carl Smith) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 8 Of course NFS allows file names containing `/'. It isn't up to NFS to enforce the pathname restrictions of underlying file systems. There are systems in which '/' is a perfectly legal character to include in a file name. It is, however, a bug that the underlying UFS implementation doesn't check for it. Carl