- To: Minh Van Le <mvanle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] "/" in directory names
- From: Andrew Bennetts <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Sep 14 20:34:01 2001
- Cc: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- User-agent: Mutt/1.3.20i
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:07:03PM +1000, Minh Van Le wrote:
> Is it possible to have a directory name '/' ? or the "/" character in a
> directory name ?
No. You already have a directory called "/" after all -- it's the root
of your filesystem. Allowing / in filenames would cause all sorts of
ambiguities.
-Andrew.
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