[patch] Syscall auditing - move "name=" field to the end

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Thu Mar 17 19:17:44 UTC 2005


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...
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