Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:10:47 -0400 | From | Chris Snook <> | Subject | Re: Versioning file system |
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Jack Stone wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Chris Snook wrote: >>> I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method >>> that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything. With this >>> method, userspace tools will have to be taught that : is suddenly a >>> special character. >> Not to mention that the character historically used for this purpose is >> ; (semicolon.) > > But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands. > Using ; would defiantly break userspace > > Jack >
I can escape the semicolon just fine in bash. In fact, tab-completion will do this automatically. That's really a non-issue. It just means that anyone who wants to use this feature would have to know what they're doing, which I believe is your goal, right?
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