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Message-ID: <46783939.7000308@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:14:49 +0100
From:	Jack Stone <jack@...keye.stone.uk.eu.org>
To:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	alan <alan@...eserver.org>
Subject: Re: Versioning file system

Chris Snook wrote:
> Jack Stone wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Chris Snook wrote:
>>>> I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method
>>>> that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything.  With this
>>>> method, userspace tools will have to be taught that : is suddenly a
>>>> special character.
>>> Not to mention that the character historically used for this purpose is
>>> ; (semicolon.)
>>
>> But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands.
>> Using ; would defiantly break userspace
>>
>> Jack
>>
> 
> I can escape the semicolon just fine in bash.  In fact, tab-completion
> will do this automatically.  That's really a non-issue.  It just means
> that anyone who wants to use this feature would have to know what
> they're doing, which I believe is your goal, right?

I didn't realise this. Would ; break userspace if it was used as the
delimiter?

This discussion may be academic as this design is looking less and less
useful/workable.

Jack

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