Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status
- To: Alex Bligh <alex@...872...>
- Cc: "nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net" <nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@...696...>, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@...2319...>, "qemu-devel@...530..." <qemu-devel@...530...>, "Stefan stefanha@...2321... com" <stefanha@...696...>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...696...>, "Denis V . Lunev" <den@...2317...>, John Snow <jsnow@...696...>
- Subject: Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status
- From: Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:52:48 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:34:48PM +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
>
> > On 15 Dec 2016, at 16:49, Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...> wrote:
> >
> >> Because the namespaces and leaf-names are already restricted to
> >> non-whitespace characters. I thought having tabs, line feeds,
> >> returns, em-space, en-space etc. was not particularly useful.
> >> I could be persuaded to relent re spaces.
> >
> > I could imagine that the context might include as part of its name a
> > user-defined bit. If we're going to disallow whitespace, then that would
> > mean namespaces would have to do all sorts of escaping etc. I don't
> > think that's a good idea.
>
> So to be clear do you want to include all whitespace
> everywhere? Or just to the right of the colon in queries?
Just in queries. I agree that in namespace names, it doesn't make much
sense.
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
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