Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status

[Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:34:48PM +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
> 
> > On 15 Dec 2016, at 16:49, Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> wrote:
> > 
> >> Because the namespaces and leaf-names are already restricted to
> >> non-whitespace characters. I thought having tabs, line feeds,
> >> returns, em-space, en-space etc. was not particularly useful.
> >> I could be persuaded to relent re spaces.
> > 
> > I could imagine that the context might include as part of its name a
> > user-defined bit. If we're going to disallow whitespace, then that would
> > mean namespaces would have to do all sorts of escaping etc. I don't
> > think that's a good idea.
> 
> So to be clear do you want to include all whitespace
> everywhere? Or just to the right of the colon in queries?

Just in queries. I agree that in namespace names, it doesn't make much
sense.

-- 
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
       people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
       and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
 -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12