On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:35:51PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote: > I was a bit puzzled today when I came across > /sys/devices/platform/pmu-battery.0/power_supply/PMU battery 0/power > and thought to myself: why are there spaces in "PMU battery 0"?
Why not? > Wouldn't ../pmu-battery.0/power_supply/PMU_battery_0/power be feasible too? Feasible, yes, but uglier, and as you point out, changing it now would risk breaking userspace for little gain. > I find it rather annoying to special case the spaces whenever to look > for something in /sys, when I'm so used not to when doing the same > find/grep/xargs stuff in /usr/src/linux. If userspace tools make it awkward to deal with filenames with spaces, let's fix the userspace tools. /sys is certainly not the only place they'll be found, and waging war against them is a battle best left for a couple decades ago. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
