Re: [9fans] another webfs question

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

> > assuming that every application that uses webfs is prepared
> > to handle a null byte in the middle of a string.  what webfs does
> > — complaining loudly — is much preferrable to programs misbehaving
> > silently.  since it's quite likely that plan 9 applications are not
> > going to properly deal with a null in a string, it's probablly
> > a good implementation strategy unless you're willing to test
> > all the programs that use webfs to make sure that this case
> > is properly handled.
>
> Ok, but then valid applications such as this one can't use webfs. I
> think something needing this could solve the issue by having the
> application import webfs into its own namespace, and then sending some
> sort of ctl command telling it to set an option to allow null bytes.

read to the end:
> > unless you're willing to test
> > all the programs that use webfs to make sure that this case
> > is properly handled.

i think it would be a bad idea to add a control swizzle bit
to avoid testing.  testing is not that hard.

grep webfs `{find /sys/src  /rc/bin |grep '\.[chy]$'} | grep -v /webfs/
/sys/src/cmd/webcookies.c: * Cookie file system.  Allows hget and multiple webfs's to collaborate.
/sys/src/cmd/webfsget.c:/* Example of how to use webfs */
/sys/src/cmd/webfsget.c:	fprint(2, "usage: webfsget [-b baseurl] [-m mtpt] [-p postbody] url\n");

you can search contrib, too.  i'm sure that abaco falls on
its face when confronted with a 0 in a url.

- erik