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From: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:58:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040618215832.GA10369@ee.oulu.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040618213252.GS20632@lug-owl.de>

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > It makes all characters out of the range 32..126 (except for newline)
> > print as a '?'.
> 
> I don't see why that's needed. I'd say let's better fix ACPI to put
> those strings as a hexdump or something like that.
There's actually some other cases where doing the escaping would be a
good idea.

Try grabbing an old a.out binary, renaming it to something like
\n<0>Oops: ,running it and see what happens...

Combined with an old-enough terminal emulator there could actually
be a bit more trouble than a messed-up screen...

-- 
Pekka Pietikainen

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-18 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-18 20:53 [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars matthew-lkml
2004-06-18 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-18 22:44   ` Jesper Juhl
2004-06-18 23:52     ` matthew-lkml
2004-06-19  4:18       ` Willy Tarreau
2004-06-19 10:27         ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-19 23:00       ` Dave Jones
2004-06-19  1:23     ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-19  1:43       ` Jesper Juhl
2004-06-19 10:20         ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-18 21:32 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-06-18 21:58   ` Pekka Pietikainen [this message]
2004-06-19  0:03   ` matthew-lkml
2004-06-19  8:31     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-06-19 11:18 ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-19 15:49   ` matthew-lkml
2004-06-19 16:09     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-20  2:19     ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-20 14:17     ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-20 20:06       ` Jeff Woods
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-19 20:12 Albert Cahalan
2004-06-19 22:56 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-06-20  4:02 Albert Cahalan
2004-06-20  8:38 ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-20  8:49 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw

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