David Sparks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> This is a function of the shell -- Shorewall has no control over it.
> 
> Thanks for the response.  After a bit of digging I see its the shell's
> read() call that is responsible.  Strangely enough, the command
> interpreter part of the shell properly handles commented \ at eol.

In the case you are seeing though, by the time that Shorewall sees the
'line', the trailing \ characters have caused concatenation. So when
Shorewall discards everything past the first "#", it doesn't know that
it is dropping multiple lines from the original file.

> I guess I can live with this limitation now that I know about it.

I'm glad, since I don't believe that there is anything I can do about it.

> Kudos for your hard work on Shorewall!

Thanks!
-Tom
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