Re: [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars

Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-19T10:23:22Z

Hi, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> But I did not intend them to be
> printed as '"meaningful" C escapes', I meant "why filter out \v or \f,
> someone might find a clever use for them and they do no real harm
> otherwhise"...

On the console, from the kernel? No such use exists today.

IMHO: Filter them out. If (big IF, methinks) somebody thinks of something
that actually makes sense, they can add an exception.

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Matthias Urlichs