getfsent(3) and spaces in fstab

[Matthew Emmerton]

No, none of these methods will work.

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.

--
Matt Emmerton

> Just a thort, not having tried it ..
>
> does either of the 'standard' methods of including spaces actually work
> in fstab ??
>
> I speak of quoting (either single or double) and backslashing the space
>
> "/mnt/space/silly long dirname/filename also with spaces"
>
> or
>
> /mnt/space/silly\ long\ dirname/filename\ also\ with\ spaces
>
>
> mjt
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 23:31, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > >>Do file system names and mount points with whitespaces violate the
> > >>specification of fstab? If so, the least thing I'd suggest is the
document
> > >>this restriction.
> > >>
> > >>Or should one extend 'getfsent' such that is able to cope with those
> > >>whitespaces? I am not sure whether this would have any further
> > >>implications so I am asking here.
> >
> > Formal standards tend to avoid "system administration"
> > issues such as this.  I doubt you would be violating any
> > published standard.
> >
> > I say go for it.  If something else breaks because
> > of this change, let's fix that, too.  I like the fact
> > that FreeBSD works pretty well with other systems; lets
> > keep pushing that.
> >
> > Tim Kientzle
> >
> >
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