Marek Marczykowski-Górecki: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:36:26AM -0400, Jason Andryuk wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:56 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki >> <marma...@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote: >>> This allows using arguments with spaces, like -append. >>> Stubdomain side of this require "xenstore-client: Add option for raw >>> in-/output" commit. >> >> I had to look up \x1b - it is ascii escape. Since I was on the >> www.asciitable.com, I saw \x1e is "record seperator" which might make >> more sense. > > Simon, do you remember why you used \x1b? Otherwise indeed changing to > \x1e would make sense.
As far as I recall it's a mostly arbitrary choice. I think I choose 0x1b because I thought that ASCII escape would be very unlikely to ever appear in an cmdline. 0x00 would be even better but you don't want to handle 0x00 in bash. I'm not aware of a problem with 0x1e.
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