Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:22:26 -0600 From: James Gritton <jamie@gritton.org> To: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Bug 208663] It is not possible to use spaces in fstab paths when using jails Message-ID: <a6403d0fb3f75cbd5c776c63615006a4@gritton.org> In-Reply-To: <53868.76.193.16.109.1461420555.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <bug-208663-9824@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> <bug-208663-9824-LNL29IWJGi@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> <53868.76.193.16.109.1461420555.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On 2016-04-23 08:09, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Sat, April 23, 2016 1:58 am, bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote: >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208663 >> >> --- Comment #2 from Chris Hutchinson <portmaster@bsdforge.com> --- >> Won't the following work? >> >> $ mkdir /tmp/Space\ Test >> $ mkdir /tmp/Space\ Mountpoint >> >> $ echo "/tmp/Space\ Test /tmp/Space\ Mountpoint" nullfs ro 0 0" >> >> /etc/fstab.jail_name >> > > My attitude would be: keep the spaces out of directory names - at least > where educated person: system administrator makes the decision, such as > mount points. Not everything that other systems have has to be accepted > for FreeBSD. Such as spaces in paths MS Widows system is infested with > due > to dumb decision by system vendor promoting usernames "Firstname > Lastname" > like. > > Just my humble opinion. There's something to that - spaces in filenames are a big headache. But in this case it's a settled question - it's not something that "other systems" do, but something that is already supported in FreeBSD: getfsent(3) allows an fstab to have escaped characters in path names, so jail(8) should as well. If I could just use getfsent(3) myself this would never have come up, but my need to operate in in-memory strings instead of a file made that inconvenient. Fortunately it just called strunvis(3) which is trivial to add. - Jamie
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