[unison-hackers] Colons and slashes in OS X file names
Benjamin Pierce
bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu
Sat Mar 12 12:22:56 EST 2005
I believe this is fixed in the new release.
- Benjamin
>
> Using unison version 2.9.20 under OS X 10.3.x (Panther), and I've
> noticed
> that unison will not deal with files that contain a colon ":" in the
> file
> name and claims that that character is not allowed in file names.
> Actually, it can be used... sort of. The POSIX interface allows
> colons,
> but the finder interface does not. The finder does allow slashes "/"
> though, while I believe that the POSIX interface does not. What
> happens
> is if you use the finder to create a file with a name like "file/name"
> then from the terminal it appears to be "file:name". Conversely, if
> you make "file:name" using a POSIX program then in the finder it looks
> like "file/name".
> Obviously : and / should be avoided when naming files because it will
> likely lead to confusion. However if unison sees a file with a ":" in
> it, then it should go ahead and work with it, after possibly issuing a
> warning to the user if being used interactively.
> I know that some work on unison is currently being done for improved
> OS
> X
> support, and I did not look at the development version to see if
> things
> have changed from what I saw with 2.9.20. I'm just tossing out the
> information about the : / behavior on the off chance that the people
> working on the OS X changes did not already know about it. (I found
> it
> out mostly by accident.)
> - James
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