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Re: [PATCH] comment stripping in config files

From: Justin Erenkrantz <justin_at_erenkrantz.com>
Date: 2006-04-27 21:14:14 CEST

On 4/27/06, Peter N. Lundblad <peter@famlundblad.se> wrote:
> > Do you have an example of this?
> >
> You mean that no one ever needs # characters in their values, ever?

And, they expected # to work?

> > We already have # as the comment field in the rest of the file. It's
> > pretty standard practice for Unix shells to treat everything after a #
> > as a comment. -- justin
> >
> Yes. The questions is about compatibility.. I'd rather like us to
> fail than silently breaking peoples config files.

I'm not sure of any case where # would have been legal - that's what
I'm curious about. -- justin

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