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Subject: Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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From: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:37:45 +0100
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Henrique,

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote on 11/08/2006 07:01:54
PM:
> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> Please consider using ":" to separate units and other specific qualifiers
> (e.g. led colors) from the main attribute name.  This helps userspace
> applications to behave better when faced with stuff like "a_b_c:unit1"
and
> "a_b_c:unit2" at the same time.

":" is probably not a good idea.  I think it is treated by the bash as a
special
character. Try:

# touch test:ms
# ls test <press tab>
# ls test\:ms

Michael

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