From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:01:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:01:49 -0400 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:7389 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:01:32 -0400 From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:01:47 GMT Message-Id: <200109031401.OAA34246@vlet.cwi.nl> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: RFC - how to quota special characters in filenames in /proc files Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Neil Brown I am interested in opinions that people might have on how to quote special characters in filenames in files in /proc. Is there any convention already used in some other part of the kernel? /proc/mounts does what mount does - it uses octal escapes: # mount /dev/sr0 "/a b" -r -t iso9660 # mount | tail -1 /dev/sr0 on /a b type iso9660 (ro) # cat /proc/mounts | tail -1 /dev/sr0 /a\040b iso9660 ro 0 0 # Andries