Re: filenames with spaces in /sys?

[Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Scott Wood wrote:
>> Wouldn't ../pmu-battery.0/power_supply/PMU_battery_0/power be feasible too?
>
> Feasible, yes, but uglier

I did not want to argue about "ugliness", as this is a matter of 
personal taste.

> If userspace tools make it awkward to deal with filenames with spaces,
> let's fix the userspace tools.

Usually I would agree. I was only puzzled that filenames in /sys have 
spaces at all - I was under the impression spaces should be omitted in 
/sys (and /proc, too) for ease of handling (userspace has to specialcase 
spaces). And looking at these directories only very few filenames contain 
spaces, so it looked like ../PMU battery 0/ somehow "slipped through", as 
there's no point in having spaces when almost everything else was using 
an unserscore.

> /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.

Hm, I guess the real solution would be a statement about special 
characters in special filesystems in CodingStyle ....and a travel back in 
time to have this rule applied of course :)

C.
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