getfsent(3) and spaces in fstab
Terry Lambert
tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Fri Aug 1 01:08:54 PDT 2003
Chris BeHanna wrote:
> What about
>
> test%201 /mnt/test%201 ufs ro 0 0
>
> ?
> Ugly, yes, but that's how a lot of tools escape spaces.
"%" is almost infinitely more likely in a path than "\"; better
to use the "\" than the "%" mechanism. Also, the parser can
b LALR single token lookahead, wheras "%" rewuires pushing state
(2 token lookahead).
-- Terry
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