Hello, On 12.01.2015 18:03, Ian Jackson wrote: > Charles Arnold writes ("Re: Backport request for "tools/hotplug: set mtu from > bridge for tap interface" - for Xen 4.4, 4.5, and unstable"): >> Add quotes around $bridge and $dev to handle spaces in names. >> This should go into 4.4, 4.5 and unstable. > > Is this really necessary for backporting ? > > Frankly I think if you put spaces in your network device names an > awful lot of things are going to break.
Luckily for you at least Linux does not allow space characters in interface names: net/core/dev.c:936 dev_valid_name On the other hand I find not caring about quoting somehow dangerous, as I already expeienced one desaster caused by missing quotes. Just my 2ยข. Philipp _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel