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Potential pitfalls in DNS handlingPotential pitfalls in DNS handlingPosted Nov 17, 2012 1:39 UTC (Sat) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: Potential pitfalls in DNS handling by quotemstr Parent article: Potential pitfalls in DNS handling
UTF-8 normalisation probably makes sense, but disallowing leading dashes in filenames would disable potentially desirable features like being able to create a file called »-i« in a directory where you don't want to accidentally have »rm *« delete all your files.
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Potential pitfalls in DNS handling Posted Nov 17, 2012 2:13 UTC (Sat) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205) [Link]
> UTF-8 normalisation probably makes sense, but disallowing leading dashes in filenames would disable potentially desirable features like being able to create a file called »-i« in a directory where you don't want to accidentally have »rm *« delete all your files.
Nor would it allow creating "-r" in directories where you want rm to be extra destructive. :)
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