RE: Valid characters on one o/s are invalid on another

["Alexander Sarras (SEA)" <Alexander.Sarras () sea ericsson se>]

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Not with a reasonable well written filesystem-driver ;-> It should
either discard incorrect entries or reject the cd completely as
corrupted, wrong format, etc.

OK, so maybe I'm not talking MS here....

SaS

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From: Kayne Ian (Softlab) [mailto:Ian.Kayne () softlab co uk]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:22 AM
To: Vuln-Dev
Subject: RE: Valid characters on one o/s are invalid on another


Yup. No questioning the undefined behaviour. My question was, can we do
anything with it.

Ian Kayne
Technical Specialist - IT Solutions
Softlab Ltd - A BMW Company


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Sarras (SEA)
> [mailto:Alexander.Sarras () sea ericsson se] Sent: Tuesday, June 26,
> 2001 8:17 AM
> To: 'Kayne Ian (Softlab)'; Vuln-Dev
> Subject: RE: Valid characters on one o/s are invalid on another
>
>
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> >  So, when I got a CD on the amiga containing some files with legal
> > characters 
> >  under workbench but illegal under windows, then tried to access
> > the CD on a 
> >  windows machine (specifically the badly named files), some dodgy
> > behaviour 
> >  happened. Files started "dissapearing" from the CD etc... Didn't
> > go much 
> >  further than this...
>
> Erm. Look up the ISO9660 standard. And the various extensions. And
> the fact that behaviour IS undefined if you do not adhere to
> standards.
>
> SaS
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