Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem

[Richard Stallman]

    # is not the problem, at least for vfat and ntfs filesystems. The 
    problem that was reported was with the *s in #*scratch*#12345xyz#.

I see.  So it is a matter of changing certain chars when they appear
in buffer names.  That seems harmless; make-auto-save-file-name
already does some such transformations.  There's no harm adding more.