linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: Escape double quotes when parsing mke2fs.conf

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Message-ID: <YAe4CC5nGdjhJCq+@mit.edu>
Date:   Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:56:40 -0500
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: Escape double quotes when parsing mke2fs.conf

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 03:26:31PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently, when constructing the <default> configuration pseudo-file using
> the profile-to-c.awk script we will just pass the double quotes as they
> appear in the mke2fs.conf.
> 
> This is problematic, because the resulting default_profile.c will either
> fail to compile because of syntax error, or leave the resulting
> configuration invalid.

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted