Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: >> 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? Look at the example above, it contains a backslash already. It's escaped as \134. "Does userspace cope with this" is of course an impossible question to answer, since userspace is in theory unbounded. However, if it doesn't, it is broken and needs to be fixed. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
