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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711061626410.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:27:19 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
cc:	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser



On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> But if you want to match "one character" (like TOMOYO does) or want to 
> check for printable characters except space (like Smack does) you must 
> know whether the byte string 0xC3 0xA0 is the character à or a sequence 
> of two characters with the second one being NBSP.

No you don't. You just check the binary value, and decide that ' ', '\t' 
and '\n' are special.

Don't go get excited.

		Linus
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