':' - was rsync..

[Robert Collins]

Sorry for not replying in thread - I deleted the email a little fast :p.

Anyway, ':' is -not- in the POSIX portable filename character set:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/glossary.html#tag_004_000_
207

':' as a special behaviour is not a Windows invention, it harks (in windows'
case) from the VMS roots, and perhaps further back still.

Secondly, solutions to handle ':' -will- involve not writing the ':' to
disk, which means parsing and interpreting the filename for validity on
every open, and during opendir etc. It's overhead - do we need it...

Rob




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