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<p>
Functionality in this module generally assumes valid input and
does not necessarily fail on input that does not use a valid
- encoding. You can validate the encoding of a filename using
- <seealso marker="stdlib:filename#validate/1">filename:validate/1</seealso>.
+ encoding, but may instead very likely produce invalid output.
</p>
<p>
File operations used to accept filenames containing
null characters (integer value zero). This caused
- the name to be truncated at the first null character.
- Filenames containing null characters inside the filename
+ the name to be truncated and in some cases arguments
+ to primitive operations to be mixed up. Filenames
+ containing null characters inside the filename
are now <em>rejected</em> and will cause primitive
- file operations fail.
+ file operations to fail.
</p>
</note>
<warning><p>