Minutes of the 13 May 2010 Teleconference     Austin-481 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.             May 14 , 2010

Attendees
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun,  PASC OR
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR 
Eric Blake, Red Hat
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR

Apologies
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat

This weeks meeting was dedicated to a discussion on how to handle
unusual and non portable filenames. We agreed there
needs to be a position paper developed to develop the consensus position.

Main points from discussion:

1. Newline should be forbidden on creation of new file components,
nothing else (the scope of forbidding other characters is too invasive)

2. Existing filenames containing newline should still be accessible
by default

3. Interfaces that generate lists of filenames should be given an option
to explicitly fail if that list included a filename with newline

4.  For example: ls, pax, find would need a new option; new interfaces
such as  opendir2() and fdopendir2() would create  a DIR* with readdir() 
failing if a newline is encountered

5. The existing standard already allows the file system to reject various names;
pathchk can identify those, cp fails when target can't create name
present on source.  

We need to continue thinking on the issues and will meet again next week.

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The next call will be on May 20 at 16:00 UK time/08:00 Pacific
and will continue on the topic of unusual (non-portable) filenames.

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