From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:02:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] attr: support quoting pathname patterns in C style Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4CD33968.4060704@gmail.com> 2010/11/5 Eric Sunshine : > On 11/4/2010 9:55 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: >> >> Full pattern must be quoted. So 'pat"t"ern attr' will give exactly >> 'pat"t"ern', not 'pattern'. Also clarify that leading whitespaces are >> not part of the pattern and document comment syntax. >> >> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy >> diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c >> index 6aff695..f3063d8 100644 >> --- a/attr.c >> +++ b/attr.c >>        name = cp; >> -       namelen = strcspn(name, blank); >> +       if (*cp == '"') { >> +               if (unquote_c_style(&pattern, name,&ep)) >> +                       die("Broken attribute line: %s", line); > > The error message is perhaps a bit too generic, indicating only that > _something_ on the line caused a problem. Mentioning that bad quoting of > 'name' was at fault would help focus the user's attention where it is > needed. Really. -- Duy