Yes - we have to deal with colons in path names but presumably not (or very rarely) in server or share name. Alternate Data Streams on the other hand will always have a colon in them - and distinguishing them is an interesting issue. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> What if some component of the pathname has a ':' in it? For instance: >> >> <ip6 address>:/share/foo:bar/baz/ >> >> Personally, I'd rather see us deprecate the "nfs syntax". I don't see >> that that provides us any value. We've never documented that it was >> supported, so maybe a patch to warn for a couple of releases when >> someone uses it and then rip it out? >> >> -- >> Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> > > If the pathname has a ':' in it, I'd want to yell at someone. What > kind of sick person does that? :) > Honestly, I can think of a scenario where this kind of pathname is > somewhat likely; an iSCSI initiator exporting a target using its iSCSI > pathname which usually contain a few ':'s. I'm sure that's not > common, but surely not unused. > > I'll spin a patch Tuesday (I'm traveling Monday) and if anyone > disagrees with this behavior they can NAK it. > > -- > Peace and Blessings, > -Scott. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
