Bug 146553

Summary: Policy build tools parse apostrophe in comments
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg231>
Component: selinux-policy-strictAssignee: Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
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Description Ivan Gyurdiev 2005-01-29 15:36:17 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041228 Firefox/1.0 Fedora/1.0-8

Description of problem:
` and ' are parsed in comments as special characters

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-strict-1.21.5-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type ' in a comment    

Actual Results:  I get warnings and ' ends up in policy.conf

Expected Results:  There should be no warnings and no ' in policy.conf.

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Comment 1 Colin Walters 2005-01-31 19:28:54 UTC
This is because the tools use m4.  Not a Fedora bug in any case;
discussion of changing the policy format should be done upstream.