From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Try URI quoting for embedded TAB and LF in pathnames Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7vu0ftyvbc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20051007232909.GB8893@steel.home> <7vpsqgyjrj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20051008064555.GA3831@steel.home> <7vachks7aq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20051008133032.GA32079@localhost> <7v64s7svya.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vu0frpxs1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <87mzlgh8xa.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87ek6s0w34.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87slv7zvqj.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <877jcjmdmq.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87vf02qy79.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87ek6ork3y.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Robert Fitzsimons , Alex Riesen , git@vger.kernel.org, Kai Ruemmler X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 14 07:45:04 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQILx-00054P-Kw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:43:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932175AbVJNFnf (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:43:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932183AbVJNFne (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:43:34 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:20418 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932175AbVJNFne (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:43:34 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j9E5hL4s010506 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:43:21 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j9E5hJjf020204; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:43:19 -0700 To: Paul Eggert In-Reply-To: <87ek6ork3y.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.52__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.124 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Paul Eggert wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > I find that email is very robust - it's basically 8-bit clean. No > > character encoding, no crap. Just a byte stream. It really _is_ the most > > reliable format. > > I found another amusing bit of info that tends to undercut this claim. No, I think you found that email as a _transfer_ is mostly 8-bit clean (finally! Oh - has qmail gotten fixed?). But the end-points aren't. They do strange things with encodings, sometimes. They see an encoding they don't know what to do with, and they just freak out. Linus