Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964844Ab1DNS2R (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:28:17 -0400 Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:44889 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932959Ab1DNS2M (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:28:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:28:01 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: George Spelvin , davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3 Message-ID: <20110414182800.GA32000@ucw.cz> References: <20110413043246.24974.qmail@science.horizon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 22 Hi! > > 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. > > I'd rather replace it with some non-dash character that is > human-readable, like '+' or some utf-8 sequence that _looks_ like a > dash. Just delete the dashes? IIRC UUIDs are fixed length binary numbers, so no info will be lost. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/