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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:45:18 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        chris@behanna.org, FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: getfsent(3) and spaces in fstab
Message-ID:  <p052106aebb4f831def6b@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20030731221450.A75410@topperwein.pennasoft.com>
References:  <20030730224505.GD531@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <1059607242.64020.5.camel@mjtdev1.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> <1059608748.64020.10.camel@mjtdev1.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> <20030731000842.GE531@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20030731221450.A75410@topperwein.pennasoft.com>

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At 10:16 PM -0400 7/31/03, Chris BeHanna wrote:
>  > Sorry, I should have written that I have performed tests:
>>
>>  Here is what I did:
>>
>>  test\ 1         /mnt/test\ 1            ufs     ro              0       0
>>  'test 2'        '/mnt/test 2'           ufs     ro              0       0
>  > "test 3"        "/mnt/test 3"           ufs     ro              0       0
>  >
>    [...etc...]
>
>What about
>
>     test%201    /mnt/test%201   ufs     ro      0       0
>
>?
>Ugly, yes, but that's how a lot of tools escape spaces.


There may be people who already mount directories with %'s
in them.  If you wanted to be fancy, there could be some
kind of trigger that says "after this point, recognize
URL-style escaping rules".

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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