[augeas-devel] escaping special characters in the path sent to aug_get()

[David Lutterkort]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Laine Stump <laine at laine.org> wrote:

> On 01/20/2015 08:56 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:
> >
> > To make up for the extremely slow response, I opened a pull request
> > that hopefully addresses all this:
> > https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/pull/198
> >
> > I'd highly appreciate review(s) of these patches as they root around
> > in some Augeas internals that shouldn't be disturbed ;)
>
> During a review of netcf patches, Eric Blake has pointed out that the
> list of characters to escape should probably include the escape
> character itself ( \ ). Is this correct?
>

Yes, that is correct since we want parse_name to be the inverse of
pathx_escape_name  in pathx.c

After some surprising difficulty, I just pushed commit f7c2174e that
addresses that.

David
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