[systemd-devel] shell / systemd config files

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and James Buren at 20/05/13 18:28 did gyre and gimble:
> Files such as /etc/machine-info have an incompatibility with systemd in regards to how
> it writes and/or parses them. Take the following sample:
> 
> PRETTY_HOSTNAME="\'\"\$\`\\"
> 
> Systemd will translate this to: '"$`\
> However, the shells bash and dash will translate this to: \'"$`\
> 
> So, it appears to be that systemd is escaping single quotes when the shells themselves
> do not honor it for single quotes here. Thoughts for a solution? I ask because I have to
> write some systemd config files for a distro installer, and cannot use hostnamectl yet.

AFAIUI, it's not meant to be 100% shell compatible anyway, so I suspect
the currently behaviour is as intended and will remain.

Col

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