Re: Long File Names and Widgets

* Marcos Caceres wrote:
>My feeling is to go with option 2, but warn implementers that they should be
>prepared to deal with path lengths that are longer than that allowed by the
>file system.

I would expect, in any case, the specification to warn against giving
possibly untrusted content control over the names of files on the disk.
There are the obvious portability issues concerning lenth restrictions
and usable characters but also security issues with special characters,
special file names, special files and other things, as an implementer,
I would certainly try hard to avoid simply extracting an archive file
to disk.
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Received on Monday, 19 November 2007 06:37:21 UTC