On Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:16:21 +0100, Barry Scott wrote: [...] > Turns out that this is a limitation on Windows as well. The \0 is not > allowed for Windows, macOS and Posix.
We -- all of us, including myself -- have been terribly careless all through this discussion. The fact is, this should not be an OS limitation at all. It is a *file system* limitation. If I can mount a HFS or HFS-Plus disk on Linux, it can include file names with embedded NULs or slashes. (Only the : character is illegal in HFS file names.) It shouldn't matter what the OS is, if I have drivers for HFS and can mount a HFS disk, I ought to be able to sensibly ask for file names including NUL. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
