FileNames with the high bit set.

[David Collier-Brown]

In article <8120010 at eecs.nwu.edu> naim at eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) writes:
| On our 4.3+NFS (Mt. Xinu) system on a Vax780 and also on a Sun 3/60
| running SunOS 3.5, open(2) and creat(2) return EINVAL if the pathname
| supplied to them has a character with the high order bit set.
| 
| Why is this ? Has this behaviour been added by Berkeley Unix or has
| it "always" been there in Unix ? Is it because sh(1) uses the parity
| bit for it's own purposes and the kernel does not want to create
| files that the shell might not be able to handle in this manner ?
| (or is it, that sh(1) knows about this kernel idiosychracy and exploits
| this behaviour for it's own advantage..).

  I suspect its an accident, and know it can be removed: we're using
a "8-bit clean" environment here, with the exception of vi. Neither
the shell(s) nor the kernel cares any more.  Various programs have
problems, though...
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