[patch] alpha_strcpy for HEAD

Steve Langasek vorlon at netexpress.net
Sat Jan 19 09:44:01 GMT 2002


On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:03:10AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:37:05AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > Yes.  All multibyte character sets in common use are a superset of
> > ASCII.  Any that aren't a proper superset of ASCII have more issues than 
> > just Samba stripping out metacharacters.  So if you just remove the set 
> > of ASCII characters that are known to be illegal, it should not pose any 
> > problems for national charsets.

> So what *exactly* are these characters... I'm reminded of Marathon Man,
> "is it safe...." :-).

Hey, I don't have /all/ the answers... ;)

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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