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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mountd mountd.c 
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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 17:27:48 -0700
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> writes:
> * Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> [010702 19:06] wrote:
> > Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> writes:
> > > * Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org> [010702 18:56] wrote:
> > > > dd          2001/07/02 16:56:01 PDT
> > > > 
> > > >   Modified files:
> > > >     sbin/mountd          mountd.c 
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Correct handling of continuation lines.  Instead of treating the
> > > >   backslash as nothing, treat it like a space so that adjacent lines
> > > >   aren't glued together.
> > > 
> > > So now how does one use a backslash when one doesn't want a space?
> > 
> > Where would you want to use a backslash?  AFAIK there are no
> > parameters in exports(5) where a backslash would be valid.  If you're
> > talking about using it in the middle of a word and at the end of the
> > line, like this:
> > 
> > 	/usr -alldirs -netw\
> > 	ork=fish host1 host2
> > 
> > then this commit puts you out of luck.  However, I honestly don't see
> > why somebody would want to do that.  The new sematic is much more
> > intuitive and in line with most (every?) other file format that
> > supports continuation lines.  I think it's what most people would
> > expect when they use a backslash at the end of a line.
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
> 
>         printf("foo\
> bar\n");
>         return 1;
> }
> 
> It doesn't matter much, but I wanted to see if you realized that.

Right, but cpp doesn't collapse all whitespace to begin with; mountd
does.  Prior to this commit, this:

	/usr/src                   \
	/usr/ports somehost

would result in "/usr/src/usr/ports somehost", which is clearly wrong.

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