Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261272AbVDIRIm (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:08:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261357AbVDIRIl (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:08:41 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:60350 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261272AbVDIRIj (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:08:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:08:27 -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: <20050409100827.7380a53e.pj@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050408071720.GA23128@jose.lug.udel.edu> <20050409085017.7edf2c9a.pj@engr.sgi.com> 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: 1351 Lines: 34 Linus wrote: > (you need to remember to escape '%' > too when you do that ;). No - don't have to. Not if I don't mind giving fools that embed newlines in paths second class service. In my case, if I create a file named "foo\nbar", then backup and restore it, I end up with a restored file named "foo%0Abar". If I had backed up another file named "foo%0Abar", and now restore it, it collides, and last one to be restored wins. If I really need the "foo\nbar" file back as originally named, I will have to dig it out by hand. I dare say that Linux kernel source does not require first class support for newlines embedded in pathnames. > ASCII isn't magical. No - but it's damn convenient. Alot of tools work on line-oriented ASCII that don't work elsewhere. I guess Perl-hackers won't care much, but those working with either classic shell script tools or Python will find line formatted ASCII more convenient. -- 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/