Tom Lane wrote:
Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:47:14AM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
Actually I think in Windows \ : and . are problems (not allowed more
than one dot in dos).
\ and : are problems.
Is : really a problem, given that the name in question will be appended
to a known directory's path?
The file name shouldn't have a ':' in it. Accessing a path with multiple
':' in it to open a file for reading should just fail normally. So yes,
there should be no problem.
. is not a problem. We don't support 16-bit windows anyway, and multiple
dots works fine on any system we support.
I'm not convinced that . is issue-free. On most if not all versions of Unix,
you are allowed to open a directory as a file and read the filenames it
contains. While I don't say it'd be easy to manage that through
tsearch, there's at least a potential for discovering the filenames
present in . and .. --- how much do we care about that?
No more than discovering the file names in any other directory without
using '.' or '..'? If it matters, check to ensure it is a regular file
before opening it?
Cheers,
mark
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