Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?

[Michael Holzheu]

Henrique,

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/08/2006 07:01:54
PM:
> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> Please consider using ":" to separate units and other specific qualifiers
> (e.g. led colors) from the main attribute name.  This helps userspace
> applications to behave better when faced with stuff like "a_b_c:unit1"
and
> "a_b_c:unit2" at the same time.

":" is probably not a good idea.  I think it is treated by the bash as a
special
character. Try:

# touch test:ms
# ls test <press tab>
# ls test\:ms

Michael

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