Re: Smart filenames.

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 19:34:06 EST

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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:

>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 02:28:38 +0200
>From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
>To: Mike A. Harris <mharris@meteng.on.ca>
>Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
>Subject: Re: Smart filenames.
>
>On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:01:42PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
>> I just noticed the following filename:
>>
>> /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/block/smart1,2.h
>>
>> Now I ask you, is that really... "smart".... ? Or is it just
>> some nice punctuation waiting to cause miscompilation to occur
>
>We have had linux/drivers/scsi/53c7,8xx.h for over six years.

Hmm. Ok, I just wanted to point out something I saw that didn't
look good to me. I've never encountered any files with commas in
their names in the source, and I equated it with puttin spaces
or control characters in a name, so I figured it was playing with
fire.

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