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Date:      Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:52:17 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom/label g_label.c
Message-ID:  <20050816095217.GB3944@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <1124182906.2492.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:01:46AM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
+> FWIW, I would prefer to see this backed out, or at least not MFC'd.  I'm
+> using labels containing slashes as a way to split a large number of
+> devices up in /dev, and MFCing this would presumably break my setup.  As
+> far as I can tell, if somebody has used a "/" in a label, then that was
+> an administrative decision, and if possible we should obey that.
+>=20
+> Is there any technical reason why a "/" cannot be allowed?  I do agree
+> that filtering out any occurances of "../" is a good idea.

Because '/' creates a directory and I want each label to be represented
only by one file.

It is not going to MFCed to RELENG_5, but I want this behaviour starting
=66rom 6.0.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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