On 2010-10-15, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2010-10-15, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> In the Unix world, which includes OS X, text tools tend to have >> difficulty with tabs. Or try naming a file with a newline or carriage >> return in the file name, or a NULL byte.
> How do you create a file with a name that contains a NULL byte? So far as I know, in canonical Unix, you don't -- the syscalls all work with something like C strings under the hood, meaning that no matter what path name you send, the first null byte actually terminates it. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
