Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:58:06 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices |
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Bill Nottingham wrote: > David Miller (davem@davemloft.net) said: > >> From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> >> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:29:43 +0200 >> >> >>> Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ? >>> >> As Bill said that would block things like "-" and "_" which are fine. >> >> Bill also mentioned something about "breaking configs going back to >> 2.4.x" which is bogus because nothing broke when we started blocking >> "/" and "." and ".." in networking device names during the addition of >> sysfs support for net devices. >> > > I was mainly referring to if we started to filter it out to isalnum() - > spaces/tab/CR etc. certainly could be filtered. (No idea what would > happen with unicode nbsp or other silly things.) > > Bill > How just restrictiting to !isspace()
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