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Date:      Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:53:10 -0800
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, phk@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_vol_ffs.c
Message-ID:  <20030203135310.B44770@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030203215045.GJ98559@roark.gnf.org>; from gordont@gnf.org on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0800
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* De: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> [ Data: 2003-02-03 ]
	[ Subjecte: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_vol_ffs.c ]
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:49:32PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote:
> > * De: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> [ Data: 2003-02-03 ]
> > 	[ Subjecte: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_vol_ffs.c ]
> > > >  - Although tunefs(8) won't let you set a volume label containing
> > > >    anything but alphanumerics (IMHO, it should accept underscores as
> > > >    well), there's nothing in g_vol_ffs_taste() that checks for invalid
> > > >    characters in the label.  What happens if I manually edit the
> > > >    superblock and put a / in there?  (imagine inserting a borrowed Zip
> > > >    disk and boom...)
> > > 
> > > I've got a commit in my tree that adds a comment about this. It's on
> > > my TODO list. I was thinking of adding . as a valid character as well
> > > (but disallowing leading periods for security reasons).
> > 
> > Security reasons?  What's wrong with things like ls hiding certain
> > volumes in /dev/vol/ if they aren't using -a or similar?
> 
> I was thinking more along the lines of ..

"File exists"
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