Am Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007 00:46 schrieb H. Peter Anvin: > Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > What happens with the (sick) case of spaces in directory names? > > Also is it really nicely defined that there is no way to put a space > > in an option in any of the filesystems? I suppose someone > > particularly sick could have a device node in a directory with a space > > in it. It would be nice if new formats for this are being defined > > to make it cover everything. > > That's already handled just fine: > > bash-3.1$ mkdir /tmp/'Jag är: \ > en liten mask' > bash-3.1$ sudo mount -t tmpfs none '/tmp/Jag är: \ > en liten mask'/ > bash-3.1$ tail -1 /proc/mounts > none /tmp/Jag\040är:\040\134\012en\040liten\040mask tmpfs rw 0 0 > bash-3.1$ Hmm, and what about the even sicker case: /tmp/\040, parse as /tmp/\\040? Do userspace cope with this? Happy parsingly y'rs, Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html