linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: hard-ban creating files with control characters in the name

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Date:   Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:07:57 +0200
From:   Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
To:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: hard-ban creating files with control characters in
 the name

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 5:22 AM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl> wrote:
> Well, what about just \n then?  Unlike all the others which are relatively
> straightforward, \n requires -print0 which not all programs implement, and
> way too many people consider too burdensome to use.

If you don't use -print0, you're vulnerable to spaces.  Go on, try to
disallow spaces in file names, I'll pass the popcorn.

  OG.