[patch] Handle special chars in mtab

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

Sorry for the lag - holiday stuff :-),

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 18:57 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:04:10AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 20:31 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >   Several characters in mountpoints in /etc/mtab are encoded in octal form
> > >   (space, tab, newline etc). Current hal uses that directly which confuses
> > >   several other tools in the stack. Attached patch puts it back in plain text
> > >   again.
> > 
> > Can you elaborate a bit more about what problems this patch solves?
> 
> Ofcourse, when mounting a drive at a mountpoint with a space. /etc/mtab will
> show something like this:
>   /dev/sda1 /media/test\040label vfat ...
> 
> Without the patch volume.mount_point will be '/media/test\040label', which
> something like gvm passed directly on to nautilus. Causing a nice nautilus
> error dialog for the user..
> 
> With the patch it will be '/media/test label' and everything just works :)
> 

Ah, that's nice. I've committed this to the hal-0_4-stable-branch.

Thanks,
David


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