Re: [PATCH v2] schema: Don't validate paths

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On 08/12/2016 06:00 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353296
> 
> On UNIX like systems there are no constraints on what characters
> can be in file/dir names (except for NULL, obviously). Moreover,
> some values that we think of as paths (e.g. disk source) are not
> necessarily paths at all. For instance, some hypervisors take
> that as an arbitrary identifier and corresponding file is then
> looked up by hypervisor in its table. Instead of trying to fix
> our regular expressions (and forgetting to include yet another
> character there), lets drop the validation completely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx>

ACK

- Cole

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