linux-kernel - Parsing kernel parameters and escaping "

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Message-ID: <4A50B09B.9030901@impulze.org>
Date:	Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:54:35 +0200
From:	Daniel Mierswa <impulze@...ulze.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Parsing kernel parameters and escaping "

Hi list,
I was wondering why " cannot be escaped when parsing kernel parameters
in kernel/params.c. Given a disk label like 'foo " bar' and passing
something to the kernel command line like real_root=LABEL="foo \" bar"
this would make 'bar' a kernel parameter which is misleading imho. Any
ideas why this path was chosen and how I am supposed to pass such a
parameter that it is considered as one entity?

-- 
Mierswa, Daniel

If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply
know better than you do.
               --- Linus Torvalds, comp.os.linux.advocacy, 1996/07/22

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