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Re:I made an ls alternative for my personal use by CJefferson on Sunday November 24, 2024 @03:30PM (#42230276)
Linux isn't POSIX compliant, and as far as I know has no plans to ban newlines in filenames, or even add an option to disable newlines.
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Re:I made an ls alternative for my personal use by pyuser583 on Sunday November 24, 2024 @10:44PM (#42233049)
I know Linux allows newlines in filenames, but every time I hear it I want to drink.
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Re:I made an ls alternative for my personal use by machinestops on Monday November 25, 2024 @02:21AM (#42233979)
In past, there have been Linux-based operating systems that have been certified as Single Unix Specification compliant, and part of said specification is POSIX. I would imagine GNU and Busybox and Musl will be willing to implement the changes proposed by POSIX 2024, which inevitably leads down the road of newlines being banned.
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Re:I made an ls alternative for my personal use by CJefferson on Monday November 25, 2024 @03:50PM (#42240029)
Howw would that work? Checking strings passed to open and rejecting them? Would we then have undeletable files, as we can't refer to their filenames?
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