From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 13:45:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] daemon.c: replace inet_ntop with getnameinfo
Message-ID: <89EC8961-0122-4616-A497-9204F52B8807@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3tz3xm3zt.fsf@localhost.localdomain>


On May 7, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> BTW. this is not only MS Windows that have problems with ':' in paths
> (because of it being drive letter separator), but also IIRC MacOS X,
> where ':' and not '/' is directory separator.

Just FYI:

: was the directory separator in Mac OS 1-9.  OS X uses / like most  
sane people.  Finder will stop you from creating files or directories  
with : in the name, but the following works just fine from Terminal.app:

$ uname -a
Darwin Laptop.local 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24  
17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
$ touch test:test
$ ls test*
test:test
$ rm test:test
$

~~ Brian