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From: "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: escaping variables in sed expressions
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>
> While you are almost certainly correct on POSIX/Unix filenames and the
> shell won't accept / in a filename, IIRC (from reading) it's often
> possible for C programs to code a literal / in a filename, and possible
> for some filesystems (also written in C, generally) to accept it. Thus,
> while POSIX/Unix standards don't allow it, in practice, it's sometimes
> possible, if rare.
If that's possible, we shouldn't support it anyway. If someone wants
to use /var/tmp/port\/age we'll just stab him, if someone releases a
tarball with such filenames we'll stab him, too.
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