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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 26, 2009 14:29 UTC (Thu) by kenjennings (guest, #57559)
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

If you had a petition I'd sign it. I agree with all six of your fixes at the end of your article.

Having been working with computers since 1979 and subject to the various limitations of dozens of file systems, I automatically exercise self-restraint and never put any of those characters into filenames.

People should not be using filenames as data storage.

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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 28, 2009 1:01 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Uh, what do you think filenames *are* if not data? What you mean
is 'people should only be storing data with certain restrictions in
filenames', but that's a circular argument.

Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 28, 2009 1:06 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link]

People should not be using filenames as data storage.

How about metadata storage? In my PC troubleshooting days, I came across a Windows XP box with a folder of videos of adult content whose file names were lengthy and explicit descriptions of the activities portrayed in the videos. Just reading the directory listing alone conjured up many vivid and disturbing thoughts. Fortunately this wasn't Windows Vista—its Explorer even creates video thumbnails. :-o


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