Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 06:40:05 -0800 (PST) From: David Malone <dwmalone@walton.maths.tcd.ie> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/33809: mount_nfs has trouble with embedded ':' in path Message-ID: <200201121440.g0CEe5a85470@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/33809; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Malone <dwmalone@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
To: aaron <aaron@lo-res.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/33809: mount_nfs has trouble with embedded ':' in path
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:37:34 +0000
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:18:55PM +0100, aaron wrote:
> When taking a look at /usr/src/sbin/mount_nfs/ \
> mount_nfs.c the problem seems to be at line 593:
>
> [ function: getnfsargs() ]
> if ((delimp = strrchr(spec, ':')) != NULL) {
> ^^^^^^^^^^ this gives a '\:' no chance.
> Neither does it take into account that I might have specified
> the path enclosed with single quotes "'" (e.g.
> mount_nfs hostname.com:'/my/path:rest/' /mnt
If you put quotes or escape the colon on the command line, then
this will have been interpreted by your shell before mount_nfs is
run and so mount_nfs does not have to understand this. The reason
the last ':' is used is probably so that IPv6 addresses can be used
with mount_nfs (this would work in -current, but probably not on
stable).
I'm not sure what the best way to resolve this is - it may be "don't
use paths with colons in them". Another possibility would be to add
an extra flag to mount_nfs which lets you give the host name/address
seperately from the path.
David.
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