From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: dm targets with spaces in the name
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:08:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081205170849.GC26097@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49395DB6.6050802@cfl.rr.com>
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:58:30AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> >I can't guarantee that names with spaces in them have had much testing
> >as LVM doesn't permit them. But device-mapper itself and dmsetup
> >are supposed to support them.
> But if you run dmsetup and key in a table referencing a device with a
> space in the name, that is what happens; linear_ctr gets passed
> "/dev/foo bar" as the path argv.
which is a bug as per what I stated above, if true.
dmsetup knows nothing about the format of the table line - it's a simple
string - and should not be interfering with it: a backslash+space (after any
shell escaping) should get handled consistently, passed through to the target
and should work.
Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-05 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 17:03 dm targets with spaces in the name Phillip Susi
2008-12-04 15:52 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2008-12-04 20:15 ` Phillip Susi
2008-12-05 1:59 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-12-05 16:58 ` Phillip Susi
2008-12-05 17:08 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2008-12-08 20:31 ` Phillip Susi
2008-12-15 14:09 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2008-12-15 16:18 ` Phillip Susi
2008-12-16 8:55 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2008-12-09 13:58 ` Arvin Schnell
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