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[Sridhar Ayengar]

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>> Except, in UNIX, one can have a completely *valid* filename with 
>>> slashes in it.  Or almost any other character in the system 
>>> character-set really.
>>>
>>> Peace...  Sridhar
>>>
>> Unix filenames can't have slashes in them (everything except slash and 
>> null is allowed). All Unices that I know of would interpret a path with 
>> slashes in it as a path with subdirectories, not a filename.
> 
> Oh really?
> 
> % touch \/path
> % ls -l \/path
> -rw-r--r--   1 luser     luser  0 Mar  3 17:55 /path
> % pwd
> /home/luser
> % ls -l /path
> ls: /path: No such file or directory
> % rm \/path
> % ls -l \/path
> ls: /path: No such file or directory

That's exactly the behavior I got when I created a file with a slash in it.

Peace...  Sridhar