On Mon, 28 Sep 2026, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 11:57 PM Muhammad Bilal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ESCAPE_SPECIAL escapes '\\', '\a', '\e' and '"' as one group. A caller > > that wants '\\' escaped but needs '"' left untouched, because it has > > its own handling for quotes or because quoting is not meaningful in > > its output, currently has no way to pull just the backslash case out > > of that set. > > > > Add ESCAPE_BACKSLASH, which escapes only '\\'. It can be combined with > > ESCAPE_SPACE, or used on its own, without pulling in ESCAPE_SPECIAL's > > quote and control-character handling. > > But why? I believe it can be done in the current implementation using > the last argument @only (id est use the list of the characters you > want to escape).
Ah, that's my fault for suggesting this and not noticing there was way to negatively filter them. > > This only adds a new opt-in flag; no existing caller changes > > behavior. > > No test cases --> automatically NAK. > > ... > > Also you missed printk() update and respective documentation. > > -- i.
