Date: 13 Apr 2011 00:32:46 -0400
Message-ID: <20110413043246.24974.qmail@science.horizon.com>
From: "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com>
To: davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3
Cc: joro@8bytes.org, linux@horizon.com
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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> Gaah, yes. Apparently that placement is correct and documented, and
> has been since the beginning.
>
> However, reality always takes precedence, so I think that for now
> we'll just have to revert the commit that added the uid: tag, and we
> can re-visit this issue when hopefully the tools have been fixed.

Note that the discussion on the libmount mailing list revealed a possible
kernel workaround: escape the hyphens as \055.  Damn hard to read for
a human, but it does parse correctly, and the workaround can be fixed
once the library updates have propagated.

In case it's useful.
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