On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:03:35 -0400 "Mike Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It is not a good idea to create files in /proc which have spaces in their > > names. Yes, userspace _should_ be able to cope with that in all cases, but > > all software sucks, even including userspace ;) > > > > I'd suggest that we be defensive here, and avoid using spaces in filenames. > > i'm not sure i follow ... these are the names given to request_irq() > which means this is what shows up in /proc/interrupts ... does this > function also create an actual file somewhere in /proc that i am not > aware of ? err, umm, yeah. But the same argument applies: it is imprudent to have space-containing records in /proc/interrupts. However it seems that we've already done that in several places so I guess any /proc/interrupts-parsing programs are already coping with it OK.
