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- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 21:11:22 -0800
- From: ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith)
- Message-Id: <9303230511.AA23591@netcom4.netcom.com>
- To: ersmith@netcom.com, sjg@phlim.ph.kcl.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: seduid scripts
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- >> / -> \ mapping isn't going back into the kernel. Sorry.
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- >Fairy nuff Eric, but why ?
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- Basically, because we already have one path separator (\). Introducing
- another one is messy, especially since GEMDOS has historically allowed
- / in file names (indeed many users have files with names like
- "2/12/92". I realize that Unix aware people would never do such a silly
- thing, but unfortunately lots of ST users are not Unix aware. If I were
- designing TOS from scratch I would use / as the path separator, but
- unfortunately it's much too late for that.
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- Also, by not using / for anything in the kernel, we provide a way to
- represent Unix file names containing \; namely, a Posix library could
- simply swap / and \ everywhere they occur in file names..
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