Ah. You're right, of course. The critical bit I missed was that
it's Plan 9 complaining, not vacfs (per se) or even 9p. I can't
test vacfs on the Mac right now (9pfuse isn't getting along
well with macfuse), but '9p ls' shows the full listing for /
complete with anti-social files.
It would be nice
Both the vac file format and p9p can handle files
that Plan 9 cannot. Other than anti-social characters
in file names, they also handle symbolic links. There are
people who use vac and p9p but have never used Plan 9.
Imposing Plan 9's restrictions on non-Plan 9 users seems odd
and certainly isn't
HFS (and derivative) volumes contain one or both of the folloing
directories with astoundingly anti-social names:
HFS+ Private Data
.HFS+ Private Directory Data
(that's a at the end of the last one). This is an awful hack
to support hard links. There may be others (I think at s
