fopen a special characterfile on vfat.

Ángel González keisial@gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 14:45:00 GMT 2012


On 17/04/12 16:30, devendra.aaru wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
>> Without checking any further, I'm quite sure that VFAT does not allow
>> colons in file names, which probably is what the kernel is telling you.
>>
> Hi Thomas,
>    You are correct. so there is no way to open files with special
> chars in vfat? but with ext2 there are no such kind of restrictions.
Such filenames are illegal in fat, so you can't create a file with that
name.
There's a uni_xlate mount option for unhandled Unicode characters, but
it seems to work the opposite way.



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