On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Scott Wood wrote:
Wouldn't ../pmu-battery.0/power_supply/PMU_battery_0/power be feasible too?
Feasible, yes, but uglier
I did not want to argue about "ugliness", as this is a matter of
personal taste.
If userspace tools make it awkward to deal with filenames with spaces,
let's fix the userspace tools.
Usually I would agree. I was only puzzled that filenames in /sys have
spaces at all - I was under the impression spaces should be omitted in
/sys (and /proc, too) for ease of handling (userspace has to specialcase
spaces). And looking at these directories only very few filenames contain
spaces, so it looked like ../PMU battery 0/ somehow "slipped through", as
there's no point in having spaces when almost everything else was using
an unserscore.
/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.
Hm, I guess the real solution would be a statement about special
characters in special filesystems in CodingStyle ....and a travel back in
time to have this rule applied of course :)
C.
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