Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Contact Us	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ	Sponsors

In brief

Posted Aug 27, 2009 1:16 UTC (Thu) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
Parent article: In brief

Speaking of O_DIRECT, For the lazy among us, it would be a good idea to
abstain from putting single and double quotes in URLs, because browsers like
Chrome assume that those are URL terminating characters.

(Log in to post comments)

In brief

Posted Aug 27, 2009 9:56 UTC (Thu) by pebolle (guest, #35204) [Link]

Firefox 3.5.x claims the link you seem to refer to is formatted like this:

<a href="http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Clarifying_Direct_IO">http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Clarifying_Direct_I...>'s_Semantics

Even with my limited knowledge of HTML it is easy to see why that link doesn't work as expected.

In brief

Posted Aug 27, 2009 9:59 UTC (Thu) by pebolle (guest, #35204) [Link]

That comment was, of course, mangled. In short it seems the closing "</a>" tag was put somewhere in the middle of the URL (presumably by the HTML generating system used to generate that page).