Bug#865528: don't escape dash (\x2d) when logging

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:21:08PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 22.06.2017 um 16:34 schrieb 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
> > Well
> > $ systemctl status AA.device
> > ● AA.device
> >    Loaded: loaded
> >    Active: inactive (dead)
> > if the user doesn't carefully replace \ with \\ he will get the dead
> > message anyway. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that that device
> > could not be found?
> 
> That's a separate issue. I'm not entirely sure why
> systemctl status does-not-exist.service
> and
> systemctl status does-not-exist.device
> differ regarding their behaviour. You'd probably need to ask upstream
> about that.

.device units normally don't have a file on disk and are created
automatically .service units without don't make much sense, so systemctl
was changed to print an error in that case to avoid confusion when
a typo is made.

Zbyszek