Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2004 03:43:29 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars |
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > [ printing control characters as "meaningful" C escapes ] > > or am I not making sense? > > No, you're not. ;-) > Ok, I had a feeling that might be so. But I did not intend them to be printed as '"meaningful" C escapes', I meant "why filter out \v or \f, someone might find a clever use for them and they do no real harm otherwhise"...
> Reason: They're not intended to be meaningful. If the kernel prints them, > the reason isn't that somebody actually used an \a or \v in there, so > doing that isn't helpful. (Quick, what's the ASCII for \v?) > What I meant was not for the kernel to attempt to print something like \a , but it could be useful for it's original purpose of making a sound.. If it's simply filtering out what goes to the screen (log, serial line, whatever), but not preventing other uses, then my comments made no sense... and 0x0B is \v I believe...
-- Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
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