Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices

[Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>]

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 17:11, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 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!
> 
> 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.

Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ?

	Xav