'Twas brillig, and Andrey Borzenkov at 21/05/13 11:26 did gyre and gimble: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Colin Guthrie <gm...@colin.guthr.ie> wrote: >> 'Twas brillig, and James Buren at 20/05/13 18:28 did gyre and gimble: >>> Files such as /etc/machine-info have an incompatibility with systemd in >>> regards to how >>> it writes and/or parses them. Take the following sample: >>> >>> PRETTY_HOSTNAME="\'\"\$\`\\" >>> >>> Systemd will translate this to: '"$`\ >>> However, the shells bash and dash will translate this to: \'"$`\ >>> >>> So, it appears to be that systemd is escaping single quotes when the shells >>> themselves >>> do not honor it for single quotes here. Thoughts for a solution? I ask >>> because I have to >>> write some systemd config files for a distro installer, and cannot use >>> hostnamectl yet. >> >> AFAIUI, it's not meant to be 100% shell compatible anyway, > > According to man machine-info, it is. > > ----><---- > The basic file format of machine-info is a newline-separated list of > environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments. It is possible > to source the configuration from shell scripts > ----><----
Mea culpa! I guess this information slightly conflicts with the various other places where environment-like stuff is done (e.g. when processing the EnvironmentFile= stuff where there are certain things that are not quite the same as shell (e.g. continuation support IIRC the discussion about that not toooo long ago). Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
