Author: imp Date: Tue Sep 22 23:01:57 2020 New Revision: 366026 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366026
Log: Document quoting requirements for the devctl protocol Belatedly document the quoting requirements for the devctl protocol. I thought they'd been previously documented. Also, while I'm here, make igor happy. Reviewed by: bcr Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26520 Modified: head/share/man/man4/devctl.4 Modified: head/share/man/man4/devctl.4 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/devctl.4 Tue Sep 22 23:01:53 2020 (r366025) +++ head/share/man/man4/devctl.4 Tue Sep 22 23:01:57 2020 (r366026) @@ -23,12 +23,16 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd March 26, 2014 +.Dd September 21, 2020 .Dt DEVCTL 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm devctl .Nd "device event reporting and device control interface" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +The +.Nm +driver is automatically included in the kernel. .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm @@ -124,5 +128,17 @@ driver. The attach message driver has already claimed this device. One cannot use the detach messages to flush data to the device. The device is already gone. +.Pp +All values passed back are of the form +.Sq key=value +or +.Sq key="value" . +When the latter, the string +.Dq value +must have any internal backslashes doubled. +It must also have any internal double quote characters +.Sq " +preceded by a backslash. +All other characters should be passed through. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr devd 8 _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
