Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:20:44 +0200 |
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Hi, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 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"...
On the console, from the kernel? No such use exists today.
IMHO: Filter them out. If (big IF, methinks) somebody thinks of something that actually makes sense, they can add an exception.
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