On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:33:24PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I chose '....' (four dots) because it clashes with less, not three dots.
>
> Is this some kind of "My dots are more than yours" contest?!
>
> /None/ of them is safe. ".meta", "...", "....", ".this.has.five.dots." are
> all perfectly legal file (or directory) names, POSIXly. If any one of them
> won't do, none will.
Correct. I suggest "lost+found".
It's also a legal name but was always somewhat special.
[not sure if I should place a smiley here]
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Stefan
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