[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] from DivX, Part 2: Multifile source

[Måns Rullgård]

Erik Slagter said:
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:23 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
>> Since any character is legal
>> in a Unix filename, it's hard to come up with a good choice though.
>
> There is one character that is not a legal character in a unix filename,
> but that's really nitpicking ;-) I wouldn't recommend that one to use as
> separator anyway ;-)

The only two bytes that are not valid as part of a filename are '/' and '\0'.
'/' is the directory separator, so it is a valid character in a pathname, which
is really what we are talking about here.  '\0' marks the end of the name, as
well as the end of C strings (notably argv[i]), so using that is impossible.

You started the nitpicking ;-)

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