linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats et al more carefully

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Date:	Sun, 7 Sep 2008 18:04:14 +0200
From:	Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@...rite.de>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats et al more
	carefully

* Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>:

> > Why not use strchr(), which is normally optimized assembly:
> > 
> > 	char *p = devname;
> > 	while ((p = strchr(p, '/'))
> > 		*p = '_';
> > 
> > Using '!' as the separator makes it harder to use from shells I suspect,
> > so I'd suggest '_' instead.
> 
> bdevname is only 32 bytes and done once per mount, so nobody cares.
> 
> '!' is what other code does in this situation (reiserfs, md, ...).

Anyway, the first patch fixes the issue. Will it go into mainline soon?

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