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From: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
Subject: Re: starting with ".." could break stuff
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:29:12 -0500
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net> writes:

Tom> i bet there's a few apps that, when trying to skip .., only check
Tom> the first two chars of the name. this may or may not be a problem.

Then those apps are broken.  ..foo has always been a valid filename
(though highly uncommon).  ..metas doesn't introduce anything new -- it
only makes ..files more common.

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