Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261263AbVDIPun (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:50:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261349AbVDIPum (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:50:42 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:2190 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261263AbVDIPuj (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:50:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 08:50:17 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Linus Torvalds Cc: ross@jose.lug.udel.edu, cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Message-Id: <20050409085017.7edf2c9a.pj@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050408071720.GA23128@jose.lug.udel.edu> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 19 > in order to avoid having to worry about special characters > they are NUL-terminated) Would this be a possible alternative - newline terminated (convert any newlines embedded in filenames to the 3 chars '%0A', and leave it as an exercise to the reader to de-convert them.) Line formatted ASCII files are really nice - worth pissing on embedded newlines in paths to obtain. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/