RE: [Xen-devel] no digit beginning name?

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is it going to break anyone's setup if this patch does not 
> include '/' as a valid character in a name?  As I reported in 
> the beginning of the thread, it seems to cause an 
> unrecoverable crash to include '/'

Disallowing the usual 'problem' characters is probably a good thing
(e.g. quotes)

Ian

> On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 20:40:56 +0100
> "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >  
> > > In XendDomainInfo.py --> check_name() there is a restriction in 
> > > place that a domain can not begin with a digit.  If I comment out 
> > > this check:
> > > 
> > >         if name[0] in string.digits:
> > >             raise VmError('invalid vm name')
> > > 
> > > ... I can start and stop a domain whose name starts with a digit 
> > > just fine.  Is there a reason this restriction is in place?
> > 
> > You can also manipulate domains by their domid, so I'm 
> guess the test 
> > is an attempt to avoid confusion. Preventing all-numeric 
> names would 
> > be more sensible -- can you post a fix.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Ian
> > 
> > 
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