Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:20:57 -0400 | From | Bill Nottingham <> | Subject | Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices |
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David Miller (davem@davemloft.net) said: > From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:29:43 +0200 > > > Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ? > > As Bill said that would block things like "-" and "_" which are fine. > > Bill also mentioned something about "breaking configs going back to > 2.4.x" which is bogus because nothing broke when we started blocking > "/" and "." and ".." in networking device names during the addition of > sysfs support for net devices.
I was mainly referring to if we started to filter it out to isalnum() - spaces/tab/CR etc. certainly could be filtered. (No idea what would happen with unicode nbsp or other silly things.)
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