Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?

On 29.04.2025 09:28, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:30:17 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:
 

With Unix there's no locale defined for filesystem operations; it's
arbitrary.

 
Don’t confuse “Unix” with “Linux”. On Linux, ASCII “/” is the pathname
component separator, and ASCII NUL is the pathname terminator. Everything
else is simply passed through as is. In particular, I can use “∕” as part
of a pathname component, if I want.

If I'm not mistaken these two characters have been used in _all_ Unix
systems (UNIX, BSD, ...) as special file system characters.

Janis