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Thursday, February 04, 2016

Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems

I believe that all [*] of the problems David Wheeler mentions could be solved if ALL characters in filenames were "escaped" - e.g. by placing them into some unused prefix space of your character encoding - when being processed. ALL of the characters, not just special characters.  Characters that already have such a prefix applied get two prefixes applied, etc.



Ditto for any script injection or SQL injection attacks.



Note: * I usually attempt false modesty, and say things like "all or almost all".   But this obscures the point.  ALL can be.





Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems: "Interesting alternative: Auto-convert spaces to unbreakable spaces

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