Subject: Re: conformance languages (issue 278),

From: Julian Reschke <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:34:58 +0100

On 01.03.2011 18:06, Martin Rex wrote:
> ...
>>      o  Other aspects recipients need to be aware of are names that have a
>>         special meaning in the file system or in shell commands, such as
>>         "." and "..", "~", "|", and also device names.
>>
>> ->  ...and SHOULD and ignore or substitute these names...
>>
>> ...the last one is a bit tricky, as what's special really depends on the
>> operating system...
>
>
> Everything around filenames can be very tricky --
> especially with Filesystems like Microsoft Windows NTFS.
>
> Seemingly sufficient (but factually quite incomplete) guidelines
> are going to cause more problems that they solve.
> ...

Do you have a specific suggestion about what the spec SHOULD say?

Best regards, Julian