On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen
Andrew Bernard wrote:
It may be valid, but it is just asking for trouble with many tools and utilities and scripts. Funny, I had to check re UNIX. I have been programming UNIX systems for over thirty years and never even imagined a newline in a filename!
Would the OP say why he needs to use newlines in filenames? Something best avoided. I suppose this is not a Haskell matter, but one does have to ask.
The OP must speak for himself, but as far as I am concerned, no reasonable person uses newlines in filenames, ever.
However, the possibility is there, and it may happen that someone unreasonable has created a filename with a newline in it. This may become a security issue if, for example, someone creates a file named
This is indeed the problem. I'm a sysadmin; if I need a tool like this, I don't usually have any say in what is in the filenames --- and, sadly, people *do* use all manner of odd characters, including newlines, non-UTF8, etc. It's my place to deal with what is, not what would be in an ideal world. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net