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Do we have to worry about supporting filenames containing '?' ? Support this via '\?' to escape the '?'. Might be useful in the posix layer since we cannot assume anything about a name. -- Fons Fabrizio Furano wrote: > Hi, > > I argue from this that the opaque info passed e.g. through xrdcp must > be passed for any request containing a filename, like Stat or Dirlist. > Am I right? > > Fabrizio > > Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: > >> Hi Andreas, >> >> OK, so it would appear that we will need to extract out the information >> after the "?" and pass that as a separate parameter. I do that, >> instead of >> passing the complete url, so as to not re-implement searching for the >> opaque information in every function. The called function, hoewver, is >> responsible for making sense of the opaque information. >> >> That does mean changing most file system calls to include the opaque >> parameter. That also solves the olbd issue in a unified way. >> >> Do we all agree to go that route? >> >> Andy >> >> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Andreas Joachim Peters wrote: >> >> >>> As it is, it is absolutely fine for me. I would prefer, that the >>> complete >>> URL is always passed to any function and the function has to extract >>> the part >>> it needs. But as it is, it works perfectly for us. >>> >>> I use the following syntax: >>> >>> root://server.domain:port/<lfn>?&authz=<authorization block> >>> >>> Because even for a stat command it can be useful, that you can specify >>> some environment variable like the stagepool the file is on. >>> >>> Cheers Andreas. >>> >>> -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://www.rademakers.org/fons/ Fax: +41 22 7679480