Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:42, Jeff Mahoney wrote:

>>  On systems with block devices containing slashes (virtual dasd, cciss,
>>  etc), reiserfs will fail to initialize /proc/fs/reiserfs/<dev> due to
>>  it being interpreted as a subdirectory. The generic block device code
>>  changes the / to ! for use in the sysfs tree. This patch uses that
>>  convention.
>>
>>  Tested by making dm devices use dm/<number> rather than dm-<number>
> 
> Your patch handles at most one slash. But the description mentions 'slashes'
> (ie several slashes)

Besides that, there is no reason to prevent the user from using many slashes.
OTOH, I'd prefer propper quoting, but having each driver do this would be
insane.

> Maybe you need a loop
> 
> while (s) {
[...]

s = bdev;
while (s = strchr(s, '/'))
        *s = '!';
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verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.

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