On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:13 PM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 May 2020 20:52:38 +1000 > Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't know how complete HFS+ support is on Linux or Windows, but in > > principle any OS that supports HFS+ or (maybe) Joliet could have files > > with NULs. > > > > Remember that NULs may be legal next time you are stress testing your > > file IO code *wink* > > NULs may be theoretically legal on your filesystem of choice, but > standard POSIX and Windows APIs don't let you pass filenames with NULs > in them correctly. So the point is moot. > > If you know of a system function which accepts filenames with embedded > NULs (which probably means it also takes the filename length as a > separate parameter), I'd be curious to know about it. >
I'm very curious to know if the ancient MS-DOS functions that take FCBs would be able to handle NULs, since they work with a fixed length filename. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NN4WHAQDQ55HWOSAVRPU6WT3JP7IQ644/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
