Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:12:01 -0400 | From | Bill Nottingham <> | Subject | Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices |
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Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel@free.fr) said: > > 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. > > Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ?
People might want to use things like '-', '_', etc.
Realistically, any filtering that is done with names has the chance of breaking 'working' configs that date back to 2.4.
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