\ is a valid filename character on Linux

[king-of-poppk]

Was this overlooked?

[anodynos]

Isn't \ an escape character? Can you provide some examples?

[king-of-poppk]

touch "a\\b" or touch 'a\b'

[anodynos]

Well, it seems its a valid char indeed... this is clearly not handled & I am not sure how it should be best handled.

On Windows it's considered a path separator, hence a filename with it is converted to the unix separator.

We need to somehow decide we are coming from a Unix path and it's a normal char, and it should not be converted to a unix dir separator. But I think there is no straight forward way to determine if the \ symbol denotes a normal char in a unix filename or if it is originated from a Windows file path, therefore it's a dir separator.

I think thought it's a very rare case though, noone else has raised this issue...

Any ideas or PRs are welcome ;-)