Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@redhat.com> writes:
block/rbd.c hints that:
* Configuration values containing :, @, or = can be escaped with a
* leading "\".
Right now, much of the parsing code will allow anyone to escape
_anything_ so long as it's preceded by '\'.
Is this the intended behavior? Or should the parser be updated to
allow escaping only certain sequences.
I can't answer this question, but perhaps I can get us a bit closer to
an answer.
The commend you quoted in part is about "rbd:" pseudo-filenames.
By "parsing code", you probably mean qemu_rbd_parse_filename(). It uses
qemu_rbd_next_tok() to split off one part after the other, stopping at a
special delimiter character, and qemu_rbd_unescape() to unescape most,
but not all parts.
Both treat '\' followed by a character other than '\0' specially.
qemu_rbd_next_tok() doesn't stop at an escaped delimiter character.
qemu_rbd_unescape() unescapes escaped characters.
I believe the comment you quoted is basically trying to say "to use a
character that would normally be a delimiter, escape it with '\'". It
doesn't say these are the only characters you may escape.