But those OSes also support older file systems (e.g. floppies),
and shares where things are not as clear (at least to me).
In cases of floppy (FAT), I guess we're just back to old days :-)
In case of CIFS, I really have to check. Then, even Windows supports
(although not free) NFS and other file sharing ... things become
fuzzy.....
I can give a real life example of how easy it's to get fuzzy. At work I
have a pretty common setup of having a Linux laptop that mounts Windows
shares using Samba and Solaris directories using NFS. How does one
control
what Unicode filenames is my Perl process that runs in my laptop
creating
and seeing by using just one locale setting, well, that would be a neat
trick.
--
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this
special
biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
