[dm-devel] Re: dm targets with spaces in the name

[Phillip Susi]

Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> I can't guarantee that names with spaces in them have had much testing
> as LVM doesn't permit them.  But device-mapper itself and dmsetup
> are supposed to support them.
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> Tools really should not be passing path names into constructors - use the
> major:minor format instead as the in-kernel code paths are much more
> predictable, there are fewer opportunities for races and so it offers
> better control to the userspace code.

But if you run dmsetup and key in a table referencing a device with a 
space in the name, that is what happens; linear_ctr gets passed 
"/dev/foo bar" as the path argv.  Shouldn't it then be just as capable 
of opening the device as a call to open()?