On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:20:59AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:14:50PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Validating file names is not the filesystem job.  In fact it's utterly
> > stupid, a unix filename is a sequence of bytes without special meaning
> > except for ., .., / and __PLACEHOLDER__0_
> 
> So you're suggesting that we should rely on userspace being bug free
> and always only using valid unicode sequences in it's names?

just treat invalid unicode sequences as plain blob.
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