[linux-cifs-client] POSIX pathnames and the '\' character.

[simo]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:42 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:33:27PM -0500, simo wrote:
> > 
> > Think about a samba server with home directories of this kind (very
> > possible if you use winbindd):
> > 
> > /home/DOMAIN1\user1
> > /home/DOMAIN1\user2
> > /home/DOMAIN2\userX1
> > /home/DOMAIN2\userX2
> 
> That's why the winbindd defaults are : /home/%D/%U :-).

I hope that is /home/%D/%u (upper case U would be a disaster :-)

Anyway not all people use defaults so I think it is possible to find
'\\' in path names, maybe we can escape it somehow?

Simo.

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