On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:44:11PM -0600, John Hein wrote:
> > Someone may already know about this, but using gtar > 1.15.1 and
> > amanda < 2.5.1 will not work very well.
> > 
> > The format of the "listed incremental" file has changed.  Among other
> > things, the entries are now separated by '\0' "null" bytes rather than
> > newlines.  [I'm not exactly sure why since it doesn't save any space
> > and I don't think '\n' is a valid character in a posix file name].
> 
> After a quick search I did not find a reference for this, but I'd
> be surprised if posix did not allow \n as a valid file name char.
> For the multiple decades I've used unix, it has always been valid.
> If not specifically allowed, it may be one of those undefined
> things that leaves it to the locale or character set.

I just missed it.

Only characters not allowed are slash '/' and null byte '\0'.


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