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Date:      Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:10:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/41583: assorted mtree bugs (+fixes)
Message-ID:  <200208122310.g7CNA4xh038135@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/41583; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: mike@cs.utah.edu
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/41583: assorted mtree bugs (+fixes)
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 00:09:04 +0100

 Mike Hibler <mike@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
 >
 >1. Cannot handle filenames which start with '#'.
 >    This one has been reported before (bin/35226, bin/41246).  My "fix" is different
 >    than the one in 35226, I just added the '-N' option which says: when creating a
 >    spec, don't ever produce comments and when reading a spec, don't expect
 >    comments.  The aforementioned fix is probably better than mine.
 >
 >2. Cannot handle symlink values with non-standard chars.
 >     This one has also been reported/fixed previously (bin/35454).
 >     My fix is essentially the same.
 
 NetBSD has an improved version of strvis() which their mtree() uses, which
 we should perhaps have a closer look at. I looked at it recently, and I think
 it fixes your problem #1 (at the expense of backslash-escaping hashes everywhere)
 but it doesn't fix #2 -- but that should be easy to do.
 
 Tony.
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