Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> You were the one who suggested to _parse_ strings in the kernel.

So?

We do that for lots of things.

What do you think a filename is? And yes, we parse it. Things like '/' and 
'.' and '..' have magic meaning.

You don't need to bring up idiotic things like character sets. You can see 
it as a byte string. You're done with it.

		Linus
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