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From: | Jason Rumney |
Subject: | Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem |
Date: | Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:01:31 +0000 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) |
Miles Bader wrote:
autosave files and backup files already have that possibility, but noone has worried about it in the past. By avoiding *?<>|" and control characters, we slightly reduce the possibilities for file names, but I don't think the chance of a clash realistically increases that much, as long as we use some unusual characters like # and/or ~ and append the process id or whatever the number is we're appending.Isn't that sort of dangerous? If Emacs only uses characters which are _garanteed_ to work on any no matter how stupid, that would seem to dramatically increase the chances of a clash with a real filename...
Even on filesystems that support them, those characters can be problematic for naive users who forget to quote them, so avoiding them is a good idea in general.
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