Bug#820359: init-system-helpers: Handle \ escape in systemd unit names

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi,

On 8 April 2016 at 13:32, Dan Nicholson <nicholson at endlessm.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Dan Nicholson <nicholson at endlessm.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> AFAICT, the only difference between quotewords and split is that
> >> quotewords takes into account quotes to allow "multiple words" to be
> >> parsed as a single token. I don't think we have use for such a feature
> >> (there are no such files in the archive).
> >>
> >> So, unless I'm missing something, this could be further simplified to
> >> just use split.
> >
> > Yeah, that does seem possible. The only fields parsed are WantedBy,
> > RequiredBy, Also and Alias. Since the values here are unit names,
> > there shouldn't be any instances where there's valid whitespace in the
> > words. So, I think you could do split followed by quote stripping and
> > everything would be fine. I'll try that out.
> >
> > Of course, if init-system-helpers ever does parse any fields might
> > contain contain multiple quoted words, then you'd need to go back to
> > using quotewords or something like that.
>
> The attached patch seems to work in my testing.

Sorry, I completely forgot about this. I have now applied your patch
and installed locally. So far seems to work fine.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler