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From: cs@kanawha.Sun.COM (Carl Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Yes, Virginia, you *can* have UNIX filenames containing '/'
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Date: 9 Dec 88 03:55:58 GMT
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	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