filenames with the high bit set.

[William E. Sommerfeld]

In article <48993 at sun.uucp> guy at gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>(BTW, you *can't* create files that have names with truly arbitrary bytes in
>them; '/' and '\0' are not valid in UNIX file names - '/' separates *file*
>names in a *path* name, and '\0' terminates a path name.)

Yes, but...

If you're running NFS, the NFS _server_ (at least the one we're
running here) will let you put `/' in filenames, since it works at the
inode & filename level, not the pathname level.

To get it to do this, you have to write a user-level program which
sends RPC requests directly to the NFS server.

Of course, you then have to write another one to get rid of it, or
resort to using clri.

				- Bill Sommerfeld
				wesommer at athena.mit.edu