Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices

[Bodo Eggert]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Giacomo A. Catenazzi (cate@xxxxxxxxxx) 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!

And long names or control 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.

I think it's sane to avoid control characters and unicode/iso*, since they
can interfere with log output or analysis. I only thought about the kernel
itself and the corresponding userspace tools, which should handle any
character sequence just fine or could be easily fixed.

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