Null and the / already were taken. They had assigned meanings,
one for C and the other for directories.
Any other characters which you wanted to disallow would be more work. So they just allowed them all.
Cheers,
Ben
Linux Test
- (broomberg)
- (21)
- Nov. 8, 2001, 11:02:17 PM EST
Don't hire me.
- (Another Scott)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 11:27:04 AM EST
Re: Linux Test
- (JayMehaffey)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 12:04:45 PM EST
See the comments at LinuxToday
- (ben_tilly)
- (12)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 01:42:45 PM EST
I'll bite
- (broomberg)
- (9)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 02:39:48 PM EST
So far so good, now for a hint
- (ben_tilly)
- (8)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 03:06:03 PM EST
My guess
- (Steven A S)
- (1)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 03:58:13 PM EST
Bingo
- (ben_tilly)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 04:43:17 PM EST
gak
- (cforde)
- (5)
- Nov. 10, 2001, 01:05:58 AM EST
null and /
- (ben_tilly)
- (4)
- Nov. 10, 2001, 02:15:31 PM EST
dont forget pipe and redir | > and your example would be ok
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Nov. 10, 2001, 10:44:44 PM EST
touch 'foo | bar > baz'
- (ben_tilly)
- Nov. 12, 2001, 04:59:39 AM EST
Berkeley, Unix and something else
- (cforde)
- (1)
- Nov. 12, 2001, 01:12:27 AM EST
It is easier to allow than to disallow
- (ben_tilly)
- Nov. 12, 2001, 05:02:10 AM EST
I'll bite
- (cforde)
- (1)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 02:57:35 PM EST
That sounds wrong
- (wharris2)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 03:04:53 PM EST
Unix Review -- can't connect
- (kmself)
- (1)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 05:26:35 PM EST
Works here - DC area, Nav4/Win32.
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- Nov. 9, 2001, 05:33:50 PM EST
Heh.
- (static)
- Nov. 11, 2001, 06:51:46 AM EST
I thought I didn't know much about Linux...
- (Meerkat)
- Nov. 11, 2001, 08:19:52 PM EST
Re: Linux Test
- (gdaustin)
- Nov. 13, 2001, 02:25:28 PM EST
Late comer...
- (folkert)
- Dec. 13, 2001, 11:57:04 PM EST