Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jun 2018 19:25:48 +0200 | From | Michal Suchánek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10 0/5] Kernel parameter parser cleanup/enhancement |
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 20:05:50 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > due to work on the fadump_extra_args I looked at the kernel > > parameter parser and found its grammar rather curious. > > > > It supports double quotes but not any other quoting characters so > > double quotes cannot be quoted. What's more, the quotes can be > > anywhere in the parameter name or value and are interpteted but are > > removed only from start and end of the parameter value. > > > > These are the patches not specific to fadump which somewhat > > straighten the qouting grammar to make it on par with common shell > > interpreters. > > I didn't notice any use of string_unescape_*() functionality. So, your > patch is kinda very specific to some narrow subset of escaping and > unescaping stuff.
It does what it says. It cannot use string_unescape because it needs to determine the boundaries of quoted strings.
> Thus, it's still not on par with shell, right?
It does not interpret special character sequences other than quoting.
The feature would not be hard to add but I do not see the need.
Unfortunately, the existing string_unescape is totally not fitting to be integrated into the parser for the purpose.
Thanks
Michal
> > > > > Specifically double and single quotes can be used for quoting as > > well as backslashes with the usual shell semantic. All quoting > > characters are removed while the parameters are parsed. > >
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