From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754306AbaC0I0R (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:26:17 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:52998 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752166AbaC0I0O (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:26:14 -0400 Message-ID: <5333E095.10008@ahsoftware.de> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:25:57 +0100 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Levente Kurusa CC: Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] initramfs: print error and shell out for unsupported content References: <1395352845-7435-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <20140321140305.a3679620aa25132a3b75a404@linux-foundation.org> <532CC215.1000107@ahsoftware.de> <20140321155517.51af1b28fe32656fb7506f97@linux-foundation.org> <532CC625.7020509@ahsoftware.de> <53334393.5050008@ahsoftware.de> <53334CB7.9020107@ahsoftware.de> <533356AD.7080809@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: <533356AD.7080809@ahsoftware.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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