Allowing \xxx in fstab

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Oct 6 19:39:48 UTC 2012


On 10/6/12 5:11 AM, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 08:57:58AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20121006084936.GA1434 at mole.fafoe.narf.at>, Stefan Farfeleder writes
>> :
>>
>>> +static void
>>> +unescapeoctal(char *s)
>>
>>
>> Use unvis(3) ?
> 
> The unvis functions unfortunately cannot be told be decode only octal
> escapes. But if everyone agrees that strings like "\^C" or "\$" will
> never occur in device names, I'm happy to use them.

I think you are probably fine to just use strunvis().  It would also be
nice to allow simple escaping of spaces (\ ).

-- 
John Baldwin


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