Xavier Bestel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > I think it's sane to avoid control characters and unicode/iso*, since they > > can interfere with log output or analysis. I only thought about the kernel > > itself and the corresponding userspace tools, which should handle any > > character sequence just fine or could be easily fixed. > > Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ?
People might want to use things like '-', '_', etc. Realistically, any filtering that is done with names has the chance of breaking 'working' configs that date back to 2.4. Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
