Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:34:57 +0100 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] request_irq: avoid slash in proc directory entries |
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On Wed, Jan 05, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote: > > > > A few users of request_irq pass a string with '/'. > > As a result, ls -l /proc/irq/*/* will fail to list these entries. > > hrm, interesting. So how do these entries appear in /proc? Do they > actually have slashes in them?
Yes, ls /proc/irq/*/* works, but ls -l does not because you have to stat() the entry. I havent looked in detail, just poked around in /proc.
> I get the feeling that something somewhere should be detecting this and > should be propagating an error back.
Yeah, a quick sanity check for procfile creation would be a good thing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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