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). > 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. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
