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Message-ID: <e1a7a758-094e-c746-df07-c2ab66204ecf@mirbsd.de>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 21:44:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@...bsd.de>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: fnmatch: invalid multibyte sequence in the string is
taken as end of string ("" matches "\xff" in UTF-8 locales)
On Thu, 8 Oct 2026, Rich Felker wrote:
>Putting byte strings that are not valid characters into filenames is
>generally not a supported usage (by musl or by the standards).
It is, in POSIX. Filenames are indeed just bytes, not characters;
arbitrary bytes except slash and NUL.
bye,
//mirabilos
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seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
-- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2
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