linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3

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Message-ID: <20110414182800.GA32000@ucw.cz>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:28:01 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>, davej@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, joro@...tes.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3

Hi!

> > Note that the discussion on the libmount mailing list revealed a possible
> > kernel workaround: escape the hyphens as \055.  Damn hard to read for
> > a human, but it does parse correctly, and the workaround can be fixed
> > once the library updates have propagated.
> 
> I'd rather replace it with some non-dash character that is
> human-readable, like '+' or some utf-8 sequence that _looks_ like a
> dash.

Just delete the dashes? IIRC UUIDs are fixed length binary numbers, so
no info will be lost.

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