Re: [patch] fix g_shell_quote

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Saturday, August 18, 2001, at 04:04  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
> > Here's the fix along with some tests in shell-test.c. The rule about
> > escape-sequence handling inside " marks in g_shell_unquote seems quite
> > strange, by the way.
>
> You mean the behavior documented in the comments seems weird (in what
> way?), or the code doesn't look like it works properly?

I guess I just wasn't familiar with the bizarre rules for escape 
characters inside quotes in sh. To quote the "sh" man page on one of my 
systems, "The backslash inside double quotes is historically weird, and 
serves to quote only the following characters: $  `  "  \  <newline>. 
Otherwise it remains literal."

I'd personally like to see the list of characters in the g_shell_unquote 
or the g_shell_parse_argv gtk-doc comment, not just in the 
unquote_string_inplace comment. And I'd like to see a comment mention that 
the particular list of characters comes from the historically weird 
behavior of double quotes in sh.

    -- Darin