Re: [PATCH] Strip control codes in virBufferEscapeString

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On 03/30/2015 05:02 AM, Ján Tomko wrote:
> These cannot be represented in XML.

Yes they can, via entities.  DV would know for sure, but I think that
 is the entity for the C byte '\1'.

> 
> We have been stripping them, but only if the string had
> characters that needed escaping: <>"'&
> 
> Extend the strcspn check to include control codes, and strip
> them even if we don't do any escaping.

NACK.  Stripping control codes from a volume name represents the wrong
name.  We need to escape the problematic bytes, rather than strip them.

> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184131
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066564
> ---
>  src/util/virbuffer.c | 14 +++++++++++---
>  tests/virbuftest.c   | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

As there are real bugs that will be fixed once we use the correct
entities, I'm looking forward to v2.

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