a filename issue or a shell issue? [LWN.net]

a filename issue or a shell issue?

Posted Mar 25, 2009 21:10 UTC (Wed) by renox (guest, #23785)
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

As the biggest problem is linked to text interpretation, I think that a 'PowerShell' kind of shell which use objects instead of text for communication between programs would be more robust against 'weird' characters in the filenames.

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a filename issue or a shell issue?

Posted Mar 25, 2009 21:53 UTC (Wed) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link] (1 responses)

noatime/relatime discussion
accelerated indirect rendering and combinations
kernel mode setting
"better than POSIX"
restrictions on filenames
Microsoft shell competes with Unix shell

Keep them coming :)

a filename issue or a shell issue?

Posted Mar 26, 2009 18:30 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]

By making hell freeze over, we can win the global warming battle. :-)

a filename issue or a shell issue?

Posted Mar 25, 2009 23:37 UTC (Wed) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link]

Perhaps, but even systems which have objects get burned. As noted earlier, the Python developers have had a hard time.... they've switched to Unicode as their main text representation, but Unix filenames aren't text... they are essentially binary blobs! If filenames were always UTF-8, there'd be no problems. Similarly, perl programs get trashed if filenames begin with <.