On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 04:29:19PM -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 03/26/2013 04:16 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > svn_fs.h:1202 > > (I thought I'd given that pointer upthread) > > Yup. That's precisely the comment I was thinking of, too.
That comment was written by Jim Blandy many years ago (r838152). It is older than FSFS. So technically, this comment has been violated ever since FSFS has been made default, because the design of FSFS clearly didn't take this comment into account. If it had, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I think we can safely ignore whatever that comment is saying, or rather, is failing to say, about control characters.
