From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: Fusing Debian patches back into nfs-utils
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:16:45 +0800 (WST)
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	"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Neil Brown wrote:

> 
> >  - escape_hashes_in_exports.diff: Makes sure any # signs in the printed-out
> >    exports file are escaped (as with quotes, spaces, etc.), so they won't be
> >    treated as a comment when they're read back in again.
> 
> Hmm... I think the real bug here is that a '#' is treated as starting
> a comment even if it isn't at the start of a word.
> xgetc shouldn't check for '#', xgettok should.
> The kernel doesn't currently escape '#' in /proc/fs/nfs/exports so
> reading pathnames containing '#' from there will still be a problem.
> 
> So I might fix that too..... could that break anything?

Maybe autofs. I read /proc/mounts a lot and I've had some noise regarding 
"#" escaping lately.

I'll check.

Ian


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