Giacomo A. Catenazzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
