Re: [PATCH v2] initramfs: print error and shell out for unsupported content

[Alexander Holler]

Am 26.03.2014 23:37, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> Am 26.03.2014 22:55, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> > Am 26.03.2014 22:38, schrieb Levente Kurusa:

> > > This is walkable but probably not worth the effort. Besides, why would
> > > anyone want to put spaces, colons and arbitrary characters to filenames
> > > in the initramfs?
>
> I've already suggest an example for that. If you have a machine with
> bluetooth, look at /var/lib/bluetooth and you will discover directories
> with colons. So, guess what happens if you want to have (preset)
> link-keys in an initramfs to avoid an otherwise necessary pairing.
>
> And spaces in filenames are used by a lot of people for various reasons.
> And you might wonder, but there exists software one might want to use in
> an initramfs which needs some file(s) with an hardcoded name wich
> contains spaces.

Just that this problem exists at least since the dawn of git doesn't 
mean nobody has suffert through it.

E.g. I know the bug with colons since several years, but just feared to 
post a simple patch (for legitimate reasons as this thread shows).

Alexander Holler

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