From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHZvr-0000yx-8T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:35:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHZvq-0004Hl-56 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:35:03 -0500 Received: from mail.avalus.com ([2001:41c8:10:1dd::10]:53520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHZvp-0004Fe-UL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:35:02 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) From: Alex Bligh In-Reply-To: <20161215164917.2zzkdwxarf4pnfle@grep.be> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:34:48 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <3DDAB833-51BF-4F73-9F08-E50054B01D24@alex.org.uk> References: <5e9150ed-2127-f2e8-f9db-a514e8f0ddf8@virtuozzo.com> <5E697C22-5FBB-49A2-A018-A6B96E29FE84@alex.org.uk> <94ef3ef2-b76f-fa5d-cbaf-8990ce2b1be8@virtuozzo.com> <20161214181323.mehzfmlf6z4pyajp@grep.be> <3D392E31-DDA4-4316-B26D-871E94A83935@alex.org.uk> <20161214201858.lblzw2ayddidxfyp@grep.be> <58F412AB-8A4C-403F-AEE2-D2FB958D447A@alex.org.uk> <20161215150312.dmxrxn7ujzq3apy6@grep.be> <78C8A0CB-717D-4925-8AA8-A085DC1F9FB7@alex.org.uk> <20161215164917.2zzkdwxarf4pnfle@grep.be> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wouter Verhelst Cc: Alex Bligh , "nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net" , Kevin Wolf , Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "Stefan stefanha@redhat. com" , Paolo Bonzini , "Denis V . Lunev" , John Snow > On 15 Dec 2016, at 16:49, Wouter Verhelst 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? -- Alex Bligh