, Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/31/2002 00:26:43
At 12:21 AM 3/31/2002 -0800, Greywolf wrote:
>Um, something I just noticed. HFS+ filesystems.
>
>I haven't played with it much in a LONG time, but the last time I did
>anything with an HFS filesystem, the '/' character was valid in a
>filename. How did we work around this?
You swap the meaning of ':' and '/'. HFS(+) uses ':' as path separator.
(so everywhere there a '/' you replace it with ':' and where there's a
':' in the name you replace it with '/').
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