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Date:      Sat, 02 Aug 2003 01:27:14 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
Cc:        kientzle@acm.org
Subject:   Re: [patch] Re: getfsent(3) and spaces in fstab
Message-ID:  <3F2B75E2.FBC18052@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030730224505.GD531@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <1059607242.64020.5.camel@mjtdev1.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> <3F285560.2090607@acm.org> <1059608748.64020.10.camel@mjtdev1.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> <002201c356fa$4a66a700$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20030731134343.GB1323@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20030801153142.GA487@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>

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Simon Barner wrote:
> The attached patch will allow blanks and tabs for file systems and
> path names, as long as the are protected by a '\'.
> 
> For the old fstab style, blanks and tabs are not allowed as delimiters
> (as it was in the old implementation).

You need to add '\\' to the delimited list, so that it is not
skipped.

You need to add '\\' to the list of characters that can be escaped,
or you've just traded the inability to specify '\t' or ' ' for an
inability to speciy '\\'.

-- Terry



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