Bug 29915

Summary:	converting - to \x1d breaks copy-and-pastability
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lennart>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	zbyszek
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2010-08-31 16:16:39 UTC

Note: this is not an implementation bug, the implementation matches the specification. It's just the specification which seems suboptimal.

As specified in the system.unit man page... units with '-' in their name are converted to names with \xd1. To use this name this must be enclosed in single quotes or escaped as \\xd1. It would be much better to escape dashes as double dashes, like LVM does.

So sys-devices-virtio\x1dpci-virtio1-block-vda-vda1.device
would become sys-devices-virtio--pci-virtio1-block-vda-vda1.device...
This is reversible too, because '//' cannot occur in a path.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2010-10-05 14:38:07 UTC

Hmm, we actually follow the way udev escapes its device names in the file system. I think it is a good idea to follow an existing escaping scheme instead of inventing our own.

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