On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 12:59 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious why ESCAPE_SPACE doesn't escape spaces (0x20)?
Space is a printable character. You perhaps wants something like ESCAPE_SPACE | ESCAPE_HEX. > That is > surprising to me, especially since things like isspace() include > 0x20. Moreover, there are test cases in test-string_helpers.c module and they are based on the real use cases (before helpers were introduced and users were converted). So, there is no user which expects hex conversio n of the printable character if not asked explicitly. -- Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> Intel Finland Oy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
