* [PATCH] docs: mention whitespace handling diskspec target= parsing
@ 2014-02-13 14:43 Olaf Hering
2014-02-13 14:58 ` Ian Campbell
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From: Olaf Hering @ 2014-02-13 14:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xen-devel; +Cc: Olaf Hering, Ian.Jackson, Ian.Campbell
disk=[ ' target=/dev/loop0 ' ] will fail to parse because
'/dev/loop ' does not exist.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
---
docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt b/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt
index c9fd9bd..b8077da 100644
--- a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt
+++ b/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ Special syntax:
When this parameter is specified by name, ie with the "target="
syntax in the configuration file, it consumes the whole rest of the
- <diskspec>. Therefore in that case it must come last. This is
- permissible even if an empty value for the target was already
- specified as a positional parameter. This is the only way to
- specify a target string containing metacharacters such as commas
- and (in some cases) colons, which would otherwise be
+ <diskspec> including trailing whitespaces. Therefore in that case
+ it must come last. This is permissible even if an empty value for
+ the target was already specified as a positional parameter. This
+ is the only way to specify a target string containing metacharacters
+ such as commas and (in some cases) colons, which would otherwise be
misinterpreted.
Future parameter and flag names will start with an ascii letter and
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* Re: [PATCH] docs: mention whitespace handling diskspec target= parsing
2014-02-13 14:43 [PATCH] docs: mention whitespace handling diskspec target= parsing Olaf Hering
@ 2014-02-13 14:58 ` Ian Campbell
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From: Ian Campbell @ 2014-02-13 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Olaf Hering; +Cc: Ian.Jackson, xen-devel
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 15:43 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> disk=[ ' target=/dev/loop0 ' ] will fail to parse because
> '/dev/loop ' does not exist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked + applied, thanks.
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