[systemd-devel] [PATCH] man: use the escape for "-" in example instead of space.

Michael Marineau michael.marineau at coreos.com
Mon Sep 15 14:07:39 PDT 2014


This sentence can be misread to mean that "\x20" is the escape code for
"-" which is the only character explicitly mentioned. This lead to at
least one user loosing hair over why a mount unit for "/foo/bar-baz"
didn't work. The example escape is arbitrary so lets prevent hair loss.
---
 man/systemd.unit.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index 6ea552e..67d46ed 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
                 result is usable as part of a filename. Basically,
                 given a path, "/" is replaced by "-", and all
                 unprintable characters and the "-" are replaced by
-                C-style "\x20" escapes. The root directory "/" is
+                C-style "\x2d" escapes. The root directory "/" is
                 encoded as single dash, while otherwise the initial
                 and ending "/" is removed from all paths during
                 transformation. This escaping is reversible.</para>
-- 
1.8.5.5



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