[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#557640: different quoting behaviour with \

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.1.0~rc2-1
Severity: minor

Hi Jonas.

I'm not sure whether this is a bug, or I'm doing something wrong.

I've tried to use strange characters in crypttab and see what happens:
- ,
not really usable, as it serves as separator in conf/conf.d/cryptroot
(perhaps one could improve that at some point)

- space, tab, newline
obviously not usable, as they serve as entry/fiel separator

- " and '
It seems that these are not used as quote characters neither if one  
only has one "/' nor if one have two "foo"/'foo'

- \
Seems to retain it's special meaning as quoting character sometimes,..  
but sometimes not (which is my "bug" in this report).
Details:
  \\ Seems to always mean "quoted \" and results in just "\"
  \t, \n, etc. seems to be sometimes retain it's special meaning  
(tab/newline) namely when conf/conf.d/cryptroot is written, but  
sometimes not, namely in that CRYPTTAB_KEY environment varialbe (and  
probably others, too).

Perhaps this should be more homogeneous.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Chris.

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