Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Apr 14 2011 - 14:28:22 EST


Hi!

> > Note that the discussion on the libmount mailing list revealed a possible
> > kernel workaround: escape the hyphens as \055.  Damn hard to read for
> > a human, but it does parse correctly, and the workaround can be fixed
> > once the library updates have propagated.
>
> I'd rather replace it with some non-dash character that is
> human-readable, like '+' or some utf-8 sequence that _looks_ like a
> dash.

Just delete the dashes? IIRC UUIDs are fixed length binary numbers, so
no info will be lost.

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