For years I've been using various Linux distributions for my home-based server (Web, FTP, NTP (time), DNS (name), SMB and NFS (file)). I didn't use Solaris because (1) the license ued to cost $595 for commercial use and (2) it was missing many features found in Linux (mainly modern GNU/open source software). Now that OpenSolaris is available, I've decided to convert.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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