From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
7eggert@gmx.de, 7eggert@elstempel.de, shemminger@osdl.org,
mitch.a.williams@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:38:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060816133811.GA26471@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E2BC9C.1000101@debian.org>
Giacomo A. Catenazzi (cate@debian.org) 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-16 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-16 0:02 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-08-16 0:10 ` David Miller
2006-08-16 6:35 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-08-16 13:38 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2006-08-16 13:59 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-08-16 15:11 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-08-17 7:29 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-17 14:12 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-08-17 23:23 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 0:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 1:01 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 2:20 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-08-19 3:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-18 6:11 ` [PATCH] net: restrict device names from having whitespace Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-18 6:36 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 7:17 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-18 9:32 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-15 19:48 bonding: cannot remove certain named devices Bill Nottingham
2006-08-15 20:39 ` Mitch Williams
2006-08-15 20:45 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-08-15 21:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-15 21:49 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-08-15 22:41 ` Mitch Williams
2006-08-15 22:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-15 22:56 ` David Miller
2006-08-15 23:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-15 23:26 ` Mitch Williams
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