> Is this an anachronism, or is it only appropriate for certain
> filesystem types?  I've browsed through the filesystem codes, but
> nothing jumped out at me.

I would guess that this is an anachronism.  I don't believe that
there's anything there which checks for it (though there probably
should be e.g. for msdosfs).

> If it is filesystem dependent, shouldn't the message be something like:
> 	pathname contains a character that is not valid for filesystem type

i'd buy that for a dollar.


chris

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