Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:38:11 -0400 | From | Bill Nottingham <> | Subject | Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices |
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Giacomo A. Catenazzi (cate@debian.org) said: > > Are you willing to work to add the special case code necessary to > > handle whitespace characters in the device name over all of the kernel > > code and also all of the userland tools too? > > But if you don't handle spaces in userspace, you handle *, ?, [, ], $, > ", ', \ in userspace? Should kernel disable also these (insane device > chars) chars?
Don't forget unicode characters!
Seriously, while it might be insane to use some of these, I'm wondering if trying to filter names is more work than fixing the tools.
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