[K12OSN] chown script help needed (word of caution)

[John Baillie]

Michael C Wescott wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 15:25 -0400, John Baillie wrote:
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>>Les Mikesell wrote:
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>>>I don't think you can physically embed a / in a file or directory
>>>name.  
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>>I was shocked! but alas it's true.
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>Right. There are two characters not permitted in file names. One is
>the / since it is used as the separator.  The other is the nul
>character (0x00) since it is used as the terminator of the pathname
>string. A pathname that end in a / (like "/home/xxx/") is actually
>interpreted as "/home/xxx/." and is as valid as "/home/xxx".
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Mostly true but

mkdir "bad /"

will create it, not to mention the webmin bulk user script.