On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 10:14 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 15:44 -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> > > > Cc: Jim Fehlig <jfeh...@suse.com> > > > --- > > > docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ > > > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) > > > > > > diff --git a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt b/docs/misc/xl-disk- > > > configuration.txt > > > index 6a2118d..a03ad10 100644 > > > --- a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt > > > +++ b/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt > > > @@ -48,6 +48,24 @@ positionally or explicitly). > > > > > > Whitespace may appear before each parameter and will be ignored. > > > > > > +Metacharacters in a <diskspec> may be escaped using a backslash: > > > + > > > + Escape HEX Description > > > + ------ --- ----------- > > > + \a 0x07 Bell > > > + \b 0x08 Backspace > > > + \t 0x09 Horizontal Tab > > > + \n 0x0A New Line / Line Feed > > > + \f 0x0C Form Feed > > > + \r 0x0D Carriage Return > > > + \v 0x0B Vertical Tab > > > + \" 0x22 A literal double quote > > > + \' 0x27 A literal single quote > > > + \\ 0x5C A literal backslash > > > + \xXX Character XX in hexadecimal > > > + \OOO Character OOO in octal > > > > Do you know how any of these would be useful in a diskspec? I guess I'm > > struggling to understand when a 'Bell' would be needed :-). > > I've not got a clue -- these are just all the ones handled by > xlu__cfgl_dequote, perhaps just for completeness? > > This is applied to all strings in a cfg file, not just diskspecs,
Having observed this it should have then occurred to me that perhaps this needs to be documented in xl.cfg(5) instead of in a disk specific location. Should I move the above to docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 and apply pod markup to it? _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
