* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:49:05AM CEST: > On a related note, config.status used to use the special string > |#_!!_#| on the assumption the user would never do that, but our move > to awk in 2.62 rendered that magic string obsolete.
But in this case, the case of the special string appearing in the input was dealt with transparently. No visible user impact, all there was to it was that it should occur rarely, because the special case was a slow path. Cheers, Ralf
