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Re: fopen a special characterfile on vfat.

From: Ángel González <keisial at gmail dot com>
To: "devendra.aaru" <devendra dot aaru at gmail dot com>
Cc: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, libc-help at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:44:43 +0200
Subject: Re: fopen a special characterfile on vfat.
References: <CAHdPZaPVYt8=28tuWrUKiO-NdCQQzg2ybRyAKSgtZfc2ZjbF0w@mail.gmail.com> <87ty0io2xm.fsf@schwinge.name> <CAHdPZaN5_kh=aD3SxqiiGHO8OeXmLidobsos+PuFfR5jt4OJ1w@mail.gmail.com>

On 17/04/12 16:30, devendra.aaru wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
>> Without checking any further, I'm quite sure that VFAT does not allow
>> colons in file names, which probably is what the kernel is telling you.
>>
> Hi Thomas,
>    You are correct. so there is no way to open files with special
> chars in vfat? but with ext2 there are no such kind of restrictions.
Such filenames are illegal in fat, so you can't create a file with that
name.
There's a uni_xlate mount option for unhandled Unicode characters, but
it seems to work the opposite way.

References:
- fopen a special characterfile on vfat.
  - From: devendra.aaru
- Re: fopen a special characterfile on vfat.
  - From: Thomas Schwinge
- Re: fopen a special characterfile on vfat.
  - From: devendra.aaru

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