These are exciting times in solution architecture . . . that is, if you embrace the challenges of learning and implementing technologies such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web services, mash-ups, portals, and the like. For business executives, project managers, sales execs, and various resource managers, SOA and the myriad of new tools and technologies about which you must make immediate business decisions may seem impossible to keep up with. The goal of this article is to explain how...more.
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....
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