From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: filenames with spaces in /sys?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:31:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428153127.GA9849@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0804272012000.11017@sheep.housecafe.de>
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:35:51PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote:
> I was a bit puzzled today when I came across
> /sys/devices/platform/pmu-battery.0/power_supply/PMU battery 0/power
> and thought to myself: why are there spaces in "PMU battery 0"?
Why not?
> Wouldn't ../pmu-battery.0/power_supply/PMU_battery_0/power be feasible too?
Feasible, yes, but uglier, and as you point out, changing it now would
risk breaking userspace for little gain.
> I find it rather annoying to special case the spaces whenever to look
> for something in /sys, when I'm so used not to when doing the same
> find/grep/xargs stuff in /usr/src/linux.
If userspace tools make it awkward to deal with filenames with spaces,
let's fix the userspace tools. /sys is certainly not the only place
they'll be found, and waging war against them is a battle best left for
a couple decades ago.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-27 18:35 filenames with spaces in /sys? Christian Kujau
2008-04-27 18:54 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-27 19:44 ` [PATCH] " Christian Kujau
2008-04-28 15:31 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-04-29 21:54 ` Christian Kujau
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