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

From: Alexander Sarras (SEA) (Alexander.Sarrasat_private)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 08:01:25 PDT

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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.Kayneat_private]
    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.Sarrasat_private] 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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