Bug 8965 - How does linuxconf stores string values ?
Summary: How does linuxconf stores string values ?
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: linuxconf
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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Reported: 2000-01-29 20:06 UTC by prabirm
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-02-05 01:23:35 UTC
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Description prabirm 2000-01-29 20:06:36 UTC
I wanted to stop bringing up the "eth0" interface during
startup. So I used linuxconf and it essentially updated
the file "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0".

Now the interesting thing is, all the parameters are now
inside quoted string, which was the default case. For
example:
before using linuxconf
----------------------
DEVICE=eth0

after using linuxconf
---------------------
DEVICE="eth0"

Of course this is not a problem as long as shell scripts
can read the config file correctly. But the situation
will be different if a C of Java program wants to read the
values as strings. Is it not a potential problem ?

Regards,
Prabir

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-02-05 01:23:59 UTC
These are shell-style configuration files, meant to be sourced by other shell
scripts.  This means that spaces, punctuation marks, and other oddities need to
be quoted.  A tool that tries to read these files but doesn't properly parse
shell quotes (ugly as they are) is therefore buggy.


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