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| -rw-r--r-- | config.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -646,13 +646,19 @@ static int store_write_pair(int fd, const char* key, const char* value) int length = strlen(key+store.baselen+1); int quote = 0; - /* Check to see if the value needs to be quoted. */ + /* + * Check to see if the value needs to be surrounded with a dq pair. + * Note that problematic characters are always backslash-quoted; this + * check is about not losing leading or trailing SP and strings that + * follow beginning-of-comment characters (i.e. ';' and '#') by the + * configuration parser. + */ if (value[0] == ' ') quote = 1; for (i = 0; value[i]; i++) if (value[i] == ';' || value[i] == '#') quote = 1; - if (value[i-1] == ' ') + if (i && value[i-1] == ' ') quote = 1; if (write_in_full(fd, "\t", 1) != 1 || |