Slashes in filenames?

[der Mouse]

In article <26038 at adm.brl.mil>, l2!adm!news writes:
> From:  LELAND STEINKE, 242-4633

> I must have missedsomething...

> If the prohibition on slashes in filenames is enforced by the kernel,
> how the bleep does NFS get them in there?

Because the NFS server is hooked into the filesystem below that check.

> If *IX were as modular, well, structured, well, well-behaved as it
> were supposed to be, shouldn't these things never happen, [...]?

Right.  If the world were perfect there'd be no problems.

					der Mouse

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