While Psychostats halting completely is indeed an error with Psychostats, allowing unescaped double quotes in usernames breaks Valve's own logging format. While minor (it only hurts log parsing programs) it still should qualify as a bug.
While through some crazy regexing the logs can still be parsed, it shouldn't be necessary to have to handle both of these cases: "Cow<1><STEAM_0:1:1><Red>" "Cow "of the night"<2><STEAM_0:1:2><Blue>" ----- Original Message ----- From: "LDuke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Cant Kick Players with Quotes in their names > Sounds like Psychostats needs to be fixed. > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Saint K. wrote: >> > " shouldn't be allowed in player names tbh. Same go's for ' btw. >> > >> > >> Which has been brought up here before. It also screws up Psychostats >> for TF2. As in, psychostats halts processing as soon as it encounters >> this in the logs and you get no stats. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
