[ Jonathan de Boyne Pollard ]
> > [Dmitry Bogatov]
> > Also, reference to fstab(5) and this particular paragraph may be useful:
>
> Not as much as you would think. The idiosyncratic encoding applies to
> more than just that 1 field, and encodes more than what is stated, but
> does not
Dmitry Bogatov:
> Also, reference to fstab(5) and this particular paragraph may be useful:
Not as much as you would think. The idiosyncratic encoding applies to
more than just that 1 field, and encodes more than what is stated, but
does not generalize to octal escaping as one might guess.
[2019-02-28 15:43] Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
> > What exactly is decoded? Where should I read about escaping rules?
> How it is different from plain `xargs'?
>
> You are suffering from the notoriously poor Linux documentation. (-:
Thank you. Wouderful. I believe it should find its way into
Dmitry Bogatov:
> What exactly is decoded? Where should I read about escaping rules?
How it is different from plain `xargs'?
You are suffering from the notoriously poor Linux documentation. (-:
The manuals for fstab on the BSDs explain that the fields are encoded ,
so that they can contain
control: reopen -1
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[2019-02-21 15:08] Jesse Smith
> I agree, the manual page for fstab-decode is vague, at best. I will add
> a paragraph explaining what it does. The updated manual page will be
> included in sysvinit-2.94.
Maybe it is just me, but I
control: tags -1 +fixed-upstream
[2019-02-21 15:08] Jesse Smith
> I agree, the manual page for fstab-decode is vague, at best. I will add
> a paragraph explaining what it does. The updated manual page will be
> included in sysvinit-2.94.
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I agree, the manual page for fstab-decode is vague, at best. I will add
a paragraph explaining what it does. The updated manual page will be
included in sysvinit-2.94.
- Jesse
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