Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames

[Paul Gillingwater]

In article <582 at minya.UUCP> jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>One of the nice things about Unix is that I can explain to a novice 
>that the kernel (i.e., open() and exec()) only know about '/' and
>null, and ALL other characters are equally acceptable. 
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>John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)

Does that mean that a naive user can make a file with a <SPACE>
in the name?   e.g.   "John Doe" or "Job Cost" or other equally
"intuitively correct" but WRONG names...:-)
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