2009/139 CIFS CATIA Translation Share Property

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:00:34AM -0800, Joyce McIntosh wrote:
> The translation of a '/' character would be performed if a filename
> read from the file system (eg returned from VOP_READDIR) contains the
> '/' character.  The '/' would be translated, within smbsrv, to 0x00f8
> before passing the filename to the windows client.  A subsequent
> request from the windows client (e.g. to open the file) would pass the
> filename containing the 0x00f8 character.
> 
> If a client passed a filename containing the '/' character this '/'
> character would not be subject to CATIA translation.

This last point, and the fact that 0x00f8 is not converted back to '/',
are crucial.

It is important that no file ever be created with '/' in its name.

Of course, filesystems that were created/used outside Solaris might well
have filenames with '/' in them.  Which is why this conversion could
possibly ever be needed.  (The POSIX layer might need to do a similar
conversion for local applications.)

Nico
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