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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. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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