On 27 June 2016 at 21:56, Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:39:04PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:10:35AM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: >> > ser2net uses : as field separator in ser2net.conf. Udev creates by-path and >> > by-id paths to identify unique serial ports. These paths are highly >> > useful as ttyUSB* might end up shuffling around.
>> I have forwarded this upstream. > Here is upstream's answer: > |Unfortunately, the patch provided is not really a very good idea. If there > |is a quote later in the data (after the separating :), it would break things > |up wrong. Fair enough, it's a quick hack. > | > |To do this right would require more complicated parsing or some creative > |handling. I've come up with the following options: > | > |* Do complicated parsing > |* Do backslash handling and use \x3a for the colon. > |* Allow a name (like BANNER) to be created for a device. option 4) use a standard format like yaml and get quoting/escaping automatically. hand-crafted parsers are a bit risky anyways. > | > |Of the three, I prefer the last. These device paths are long and fairly > |meaningless, this would allow a meaningful name to be created for these > |devices. And it would probably be the simplest. > | > |-corey > > He is also now subscribed here. Welcome, corey. Thanks for working on ser2net! Riku
