[parted-devel] [PATCH] parted/ui: Count empty strings as words in multi_word mode

[Sebastian Parschauer]

On 10.08.2017 16:23, Sebastian Parschauer wrote:
> In non-interactive mode, the command line arguments are appended
> to a string list with command_line_push_line() in multi_word mode.
> That mode does not count empty strings as a word.
> For mkpart and a GPT disk label, the partition name is picked up
> from that string list. The partition name is mandatory and we
> cannot make it optional. So it is not possible to set an empty
> partition name from command line this way.
> Also setting a default name is no option as this causes duplicate
> /dev/disk/by-partlabel/ symlinks and systemd errors this way.
> 
> So count empty strings as words in multi_word mode to allow the
> the following commands to set an empty partition name.
> 
> parted -s /dev/vdb mkpart "" 1MiB 100%
> parted -s /dev/vdb mkpart "" ext3 1MiB 100%

Arvin Schnell found a bug in interactive mode in this. Using "mkpart "
(with a space at the end) e.g. caused by command completion causes that
it doesn't ask for the partition name any more.

I'll do a V2 which requires empty inner quotes '""' or "''" in
multi_word mode.

Cheers,
Sebastian