[syslinux] [PATCH 1/1] COMBOOT API: Add get current working directory call to most

[Gene Cumm]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Gene Cumm wrote:
>> On the flip side, PXELINUX does assume that it can use "/" when trying
>> to find the configuration.  But, this could be interpreted by the TFTP
>> server as either a directory separator or as a normal file name
>> character (if there is any OS that _might_ do this.  I don't know of
>> one.  DOS/WIndows does not.  Unix-like would of course use it as a
>> directory separator.) and still be able to use PXELINUX.
>
> MacOS classic, for one.
>
>        -hpa
>

Interesting.  ":" as directory separator and "/" as valid file name
character.  (looking at info at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(computing) and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename )

Thanks for getting me thinking on that.