Share ignore and storing % tokens in a tdb

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:55:20PM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > Is there a function that will safely quote any shell metacharacters in a
> > string such that that string can then be placed in double quotes and
> > passed to /bin/sh -c?? I think we could use such a function, but I
> > wonder how simple it would be.
> 
> 	I wrote one once for C (actually B!) quotes,
> 	and it was mildly hairy. 
> 
> 	Hmmn: or is it???
> 	I suspect we want to evaluate all the `` and $var
> 	constructs, so that the program called gets the right
> 	information, and just protect against tokens like
> 	"foo bar" turning into multiples...
> 
> 	Does that make sense? That would make:
> 		open hook = scriptName %U "weegle woggle" 
> 	should turn into 
> 		popen("scriptName \"%U\" \"weegle woggle\"" ,"r");

Right, with the value of %U having been run through the safe_quote()
function so it is safe (if %U contains embedded double quotes then
those need to be quoted!). This is just what I meant.

Hmmm, I just tested it and it seems that the only meta-character that
needs to be quoted with \ is " if you then place the string in double
quotes. Alternatively you can \ escape every meta-character (and control
and white-space chars too!) and not double quote the result.

So a safe_quote() function should be easy to implement; watch for one
later today or tomorrow...

> --dave

BTW, what's wrong with the Samba lists? The archives are not updating,
so I can't read any new posts...

Nico
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