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Re: NSString, path and "/" char
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Re: NSString, path and "/" char


  • Subject: Re: NSString, path and "/" char
  • From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:25:35 -0700

Yes, I do believe this discussion has come up often on carbon-dev. Usually, the common first question is "Where are you getting the name that contains the : or /?". Then the entire volume format thing is mentioned, then people say never, ever use paths as paths are evil and very, very fragile. Then they get into a huge discussion about how all the path based APIs fail miserably when a path is over 1024 bytes in length while the non-path based APIs have no issue with any length of path.

Ack, at 11/24/06, Sean McBride said:

Trygve, I believe the only way to know if a filename is any good is to
try creating a file with that name.  I'm also pretty sure I remember a
very similar discussion in the past, probably on carbon-dev, you might
want it check its archives.

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 >NSString, path and "/" char (From: Trygve Inda <email@hidden>)
 >Re: NSString, path and "/" char (From: "Clark Cox" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: NSString, path and "/" char (From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>)

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