David Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > From: Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.) 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