Review Request: Disallow names of files containing '/' or being equal to "." or "..".

Mark Gaiser markg85 at gmail.com
Mon May 30 00:13:43 BST 2011



> On May 28, 2011, 9:29 a.m., David Faure wrote:
> > The handling of '/' could use KIO::encodeFileName instead, for consistency. I agree about "." and ".." though ;)
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> Mark Gaiser wrote:
>     I wonder.. don't we need a "isFilename" function that checks if a filename meets all the characters that are allowed in a filename thus returning false when it starts with a / or for example contains a *? or being equal to . or .. ? That would make the use more "portable" since i can imagine other apps benefiting from that (any app that needs to create a file or folder from user input)
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> Richard J. Moore wrote:
>     Filenames containing * and ? are perfectly legal. The only truly illegal characters in a unix filename are / and \0. To be portable, you need to consider the underlying filesystem in which a file is being created since this sets the rules, for example FAT has a bunch of characters that can't be used (eg. consider how a filename starting with ? would interact with its file deletion handling). Short version, I don't see how the function you propose could be implemented.
>

You are completely right. I didn't think about the differences per filesystem.


- Mark


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On May 28, 2011, 6:26 p.m., Matthias Fuchs wrote:
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> (Updated May 28, 2011, 6:26 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.
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> Summary
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> nt
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> This addresses bug 211751.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211751
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> Diffs
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>   kio/kio/kdirmodel.cpp 6bf57be 
>   kio/kio/kfileitemdelegate.cpp cb3939d 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101456/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Matthias
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