On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:07:19 GMT, David Woodhouse said:
When we're speaking of making the kernel render it that way, I
disagree.
We really don't want to get into that kind of text processing. In the
common case where it's safe, let's dump it as text. In the rare case
that it contains dubious characters, dump it as hex.
If you include "whitespace" as a "dubious" character, that would kill
several birds with one stone. Then you just need 'name=A:ascii_string'
or 'name=H:hexstring' and most parsing issues go away. Works for me...