David Bustos wrote:
> Quoth Nicolas Williams on Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:38:07PM -0500:
>> Below is my first draft of an ARC case for this. Please review.
>
> Thanks for taking the initiative on this, Nico.
>
>> PROBLEM
>> -------
>>
>> svcprop(1) output does not unambiguously distinguish the individual
>> values of multi-valued properties. This makes it difficult to script
>> around svcprop(1).
>
> Can we make this more precise? Isn't the problem that when svcprop
> quotes newline, it does so with a backslash, which is difficult to use
> with "read"?
Quoting problems affect more than just newlines. We've not found a way
yet to fix the bugs in the Xserver script handling of svcprop output of
it's options/server_args property as multiple X server arguments with the
current svcprop. (See CR 6218143.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
