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Hi,

> This very discussion came up in -questions a few months ago (or maybe it was
> late last year).  The conclusion was that unless someone rewrites the
> /etc/fstab parsing routines in libc to support quoted and/or escaped spaces,
> we'll never be able to mount filesystems that have spaces in their names.

I volunteer for that. My intention is to make getfsent(3) recognize '\ '
for both the filesystem and the mount point. I think this is more
applicable than using quotes. 'mount' should already handle this
correctly, but I will do thorough testing, of course.

Cheers,
 Simon

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