From: Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:29:43 +0200
> Why not simply retricting chars to isalnum() ones ? As Bill said that would block things like "-" and "_" which are fine. Bill also mentioned something about "breaking configs going back to 2.4.x" which is bogus because nothing broke when we started blocking "/" and "." and ".." in networking device names during the addition of sysfs support for net devices. Nobody in their right mind puts a space in their network device name. All you "name purists", go rename the block device name that is used for your root partition to something with a space in it, and watch how many startup scripts and command line invocations just explode. There is absolutely no valid argument for allowing spaces in network device names. - 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
