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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins 
In-Reply-To: Message from Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> 
   of "Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:58:11 MST." <42D2F983.1060105@namesys.com> 
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:33:24 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
> Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> > I think "..." and ".meta" both serve as a logical delimiter. However
> > some programs implement their own "..." which would make it clash with
> > them. Naturally if some program created a directory called .meta we're
> > equally screwed.

> I chose '....' (four dots) because it clashes with less, not three dots.

Is this some kind of "My dots are more than yours" contest?!

/None/ of them is safe. ".meta", "...", "....", ".this.has.five.dots." are
all perfectly legal file (or directory) names, POSIXly. If any one of them
won't do, none will.
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