Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:02:24 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc. |
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:04:52PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:32:12PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:36:24PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > Hi, Nico Schottelius wrote: > > > > > > > What Linux supported filesystems support UTF-8 filenames? > > > > > > Filenames, to the kernel, are a sequence of 8-bit things commonly > > > called "bytes" or "octets", excluding '/' and '\0'. > > > > > > > You can have "/" in the filename also, though that could be encoded somehow... > > You might be able to have a non-ASCII character that looks > like / but not 0x2f. > > I for one do not want open("/var/tpm/diddle", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT) > to create a file "tpm/diddle" in /var just because /var/tpm > doesn't exist. Fortunately what happens is it fails with > ENOENT.
OK, I stand corrected.
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