On 06/01/11 09:37, Ian Malone wrote: > On 1 June 2011 16:11, Corinna Vinschen<vinschen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How can I specify filenames with spaces in tmpfiles.d configuration >> files? There's no hint in `man tmfiles.d'. I tried >> >> - fstab style: d /foo\040bar 0755 root root >> - web style: d /foo%20bar 0755 root root >> - quoted style 1: d "/foo bar" 0755 root root >> - quoted style 2: d '/foo bar' 0755 root root >> >> This results in two directories >> >> /foo\040bar >> /foo%20bar >> >> and two error messages: >> >> Path '"/foo' not absolute. >> Path ''/foo' not absolute. >> >> So, do I have to take it that tmpfiles.d doesn't grok spaces in >> filenames at all? >> >> Please note, I'm not asking for the obvious answer "don't do this" and >> I'm also not asking for the counter question "why do you need this?" >> > As usual both of these might push in the direction of another way to > solve the problem. From checking the documentation it seems packages > are expected to define patterns here for their tmpfiles which they > should have control over. Which I guess is not the situation you're > dealing with. Looking at it I think the short answer is you can't as > tmpfiles.c is just using sscanf to parse this line: > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/tree/src/tmpfiles.c > Line 670: > if (sscanf(buffer, > "%c " > "%ms " > "%ms " > "%ms " > "%ms " > "%ms", > &i->type, > &i->path, > &mode, > &user, > &group, > &age)< 2) { > log_error("[%s:%u] Syntax error.", fname, line); > r = -EIO; > goto finish; > } > > So the long answer is you either have to modify tmpfiles.c to deal > with this or write a similar daemon to do it. > Since a space is Unix's and Linux's chosen field separator, I think having a space in filenames should be avoided. there are many situations where spaces in filenames cause problems. A simple example: for i in *; do [ -f $i ] && echo $i is a file done you will see that the file with spaces in it's name will not be recognized as a file because each space-separated member of that file name becomes a separate argument when * is expanded by the shell. There are probably other more serious problems posed by spaces in filenames. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
