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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:45:18 -0400
To: chris@behanna.org, FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: getfsent(3) and spaces in fstab
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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".

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