Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@...>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...>, Casey Schaufler <casey@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-security-module@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Al Viro <viro@...>
So?
We do that for lots of things.
What do you think a filename is? And yes, we parse it. Things like '/' and
'.' and '..' have magic meaning.
You don't need to bring up idiotic things like character sets. You can see
it as a byte string. You're done with it.
Linus
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