Subject: Strange file names

From: Peter Åstrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:54:26 +0100 (CET)

The spec says that file named "." or ".." have no special semantics in
NFS4. Does this mean servers should accept requests for creating files
with these names? I believe quite many servers will have trouble with that
:-) The same goes for names with "/" and "\". Which error code should
servers return on, for example, CREATE with such strange filename? 
NFS4ERR_INVAL?

I would prefer banning the following names in NFS4:

. (U+002E)
.. (U+002E, U+002E)
Names with / (U+002F)
Names with \ (U+005C)
Names with NULL (U+0000)

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