[systemd-devel] "Unknown lvalue '' in section 'Service'"

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:34 AM Ulrich Windl <
Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I noticed that a line of "=======" in "[Service]" cases the message "
> Unknown lvalue '' in section 'Service'".
> (systemd 228)
>
> Shouldn't that be "Parse error at '=======' in section 'Service'"?
>

Arguably it isn't a parse error – the keyfile parser successfully
recognizes the line as assigning the value "======" to the key "". It's
only later when the parsed results are interpreted that each key is matched
to an internal handler.

The error message *could* be clearer if all such errors had a common "Parse
error:" prefix, I guess. (And what's the point of calling it an 'lvalue'
anyway?...)

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas
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