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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2025-10-29 12:27:06 +0100
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This work is incomplete, but waiting until all pages have been updated would unnecessarily delay publishing these changes, which are already useful. Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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.UR https://pubs.opengroup.org/\:onlinepubs/\:9799919799/\:basedefs/\:V1_chap03.html#tag_03_265
Portable Filename Character Set
.UE .
+.SH VERSIONS
+POSIX.1-2024 encourages implementations to
+disallow creation of filenames containing new-line characters.
+Linux doesn't follow this,
+and allows using new-line characters.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR limits.h (0p),
.BR open (2),