Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

[Warren Young]

On 4/10/2014 14:20, Eric Blake wrote:
> is BOUND to go wrong.  The expression
>
> ~a/b/file
>
> is NOT requesting 'file' within user 'a/b's home, but 'b/file' within
> user 'a's home.

Excellent point.

Doesn't that also argue against backslash, due to the DLL's attempts to 
automatically cope with DOS paths?

Once you exclude all characters that neither the shell nor the DLL nor 
Windows will interpret specially, what's left?  According to TLDP[*], 
nothing.

Soooo....emoji?  :)


[*] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/special-chars.html

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