Re: [whatwg] Intent of the FileSystem API

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com> wrote:
>> Maybe disallow nulls; I'm not sure if this is special enough to
>> actually need to be in this set.
>
> I like it, though, as allowing nulls in strings is likely to lead to user error.

In my experience, most of the errors surrounding nulls are related to
null-terminated strings, which doesn't apply in JS.

I'm not bothered much either way, though: no real systems support
nulls in filenames (since it would break just about all C APIs), so
disallowing it won't break anything.

-- 
Glenn Maynard