[TriLUG] Problem on Fedora 8

[James Jones]

Remember my problem started with corrupted VolumeGroups.

jcj

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:46:16PM -0400, Alexander Ray wrote:
>> I hope this isn't too obvious a question, but why are invisible characters
>> allowed in filenames?  As far as I know the name doesn't affect it's node,
>> so the file name is just for the human's benefit.  If we can't read it,
>> whats the use?
>
> Filenames are not restricted to humans.  A program could easily write a
> filename that had a sequence number implemented as a char tacked on to
> the end of the human-readable part.
>
> loga
> logb
> logc and so on simply adding one to the last character until you have
> 256 different log files.  If the file is intended only for the program
> to manipulate, there is no requirement that the file name be
> human-readable.  Some people may not agree with the programmer who
> designed it that way, but in UNIX, this is perfectly reasonable.
>
>
> Brian
>
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