From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] initramfs: print error and shell out for unsupported content
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:25:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5333E095.10008@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533356AD.7080809@ahsoftware.de>
Am 26.03.2014 23:37, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> Am 26.03.2014 22:55, schrieb Alexander Holler:
>> Am 26.03.2014 22:38, schrieb Levente Kurusa:
>>> This is walkable but probably not worth the effort. Besides, why would
>>> anyone want to put spaces, colons and arbitrary characters to filenames
>>> in the initramfs?
>
> I've already suggest an example for that. If you have a machine with
> bluetooth, look at /var/lib/bluetooth and you will discover directories
> with colons. So, guess what happens if you want to have (preset)
> link-keys in an initramfs to avoid an otherwise necessary pairing.
>
> And spaces in filenames are used by a lot of people for various reasons.
> And you might wonder, but there exists software one might want to use in
> an initramfs which needs some file(s) with an hardcoded name wich
> contains spaces.
Just that this problem exists at least since the dawn of git doesn't
mean nobody has suffert through it.
E.g. I know the bug with colons since several years, but just feared to
post a simple patch (for legitimate reasons as this thread shows).
Alexander Holler
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-27 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-20 21:35 [PATCH] initramfs: print error and shell out for unsupported content Alexander Holler
2014-03-20 21:43 ` Levente Kurusa
2014-03-20 22:00 ` [PATCH v2] " Alexander Holler
2014-03-20 22:25 ` Alexander Holler
2014-03-21 21:03 ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-21 22:49 ` Alexander Holler
2014-03-21 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-21 23:07 ` Alexander Holler
2014-03-22 9:53 ` Alexander Holler
2014-03-22 12:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] initramfs: don't include filenames from the initramfs for make goals (dist)clean Alexander Holler
2014-03-22 12:29 ` [PATCH 2/2 v3] initramfs: print error and shell out for unsupported content Alexander Holler
2014-03-22 18:22 ` Alexander Holler
2014-03-31 20:31 ` Michal Marek
2014-04-01 11:23 ` Alexander Holler
2014-04-01 12:23 ` Michal Marek
2014-04-01 17:52 ` Alexander Holler
2014-10-19 7:18 ` [PATCH 1/2 v4] initramfs: don't include filenames from the initramfs for make goals (dist)clean Alexander Holler
2014-10-19 7:18 ` [PATCH 2/2 v4] initramfs: print error and shell out for unsupported content Alexander Holler
2014-03-26 21:16 ` [PATCH v2] " Alexander Holler
2014-03-26 21:38 ` Levente Kurusa
2014-03-26 21:55 ` Alexander Holler
2014-03-26 22:37 ` Alexander Holler
2014-03-27 8:25 ` Alexander Holler [this message]
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