From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Guy" Subject: RE: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:28:36 -0400 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200407211528.i6LFSa322018@watkins-home.com> References: <20040721122622.GQ4690@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "'Jan Hudec'" , "'Matthew Wilcox'" , , "'Bryan Henderson'" , Return-path: Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:24194 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266507AbUGUP2k convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:28:40 -0400 To: "'Jan-Benedict Glaw'" , "'Joseph D. Wagner'" In-Reply-To: <20040721122622.GQ4690@lug-owl.de> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Again, your missing the point. Sure it I want to do "ls|cat" or "ls|more" I can. But this simple, ver= y common set of commands should not be able to trash your system! -----Original Message----- =46rom: Jan-Benedict Glaw [mailto:jbglaw@lug-owl.de]=20 Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:26 AM To: Joseph D. Wagner Cc: 'Jan Hudec'; 'Matthew Wilcox'; 'Guy'; viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk; 'Bryan Henderson'; linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names On Tue, 2004-07-20 17:16:52 -0500, Joseph D. Wagner wrote in message : > > People don't type ls | cat by mistake. They do it on purpose, usual= y. >=20 > But they shouldn't be able to do it at all, which is the whole origin= al > point of this discussion. In other words, people shouldn't be able t= o > do things that harm the system. They *should* be able to do anything they want. It's Unix -- you're the boss, system does what you request from it. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen = Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im= Irak! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM = | TCPA)); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html