Re: [idea] request_module(const char *fmt, ...);

[Tigran Aivazian]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> |> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> |> > Another thing being that yes, it would be nice to have printf-like _real_
> |> > request_module(). The only thing to watch for is literal module name
> |> > passing - if you know that name will never contain % you are fine,
> |> > otherwise you'll need to go for "%s",name.
> 
> Unless "hello" is "h%ell%o", or some non-literal.

I admited that Alexander's point is valid. But I don't think
request_module() should work around that - it is better to document module
names containing % character as invalid. A non-privileged user can't do
anything nasty here so I don't see any problem. Let's document it in some
obscure place so the luser (or lprogrammer?) who wrote a module called
"h%ell%o" spends hours finding out why it is not autoloaded... ;)

Regards,
Tigran.