Nagios 4: Commands are unescaped twice

[Adam James]

Hi Andreas,

On 08/01/13 10:12, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> lib/runcmd.c is the library code which shouldn't change its behaviour. The
> code in utils.c should be removed instead.

The attached patch removes the general escape handling code from
utils.c, with the exception of "\!" as otherwise it wouldn't be possible
to include a "!" inside an argument.

If you think this should be done differently then let me know and I'll
amend the patch.

> On the other hand, the runcmd.c code should have a flag argument one can
> use to tell it to ignore certain characters, with "ignore everything" to
> be taken as "split on every whitespace-sequence and disregard quoting and
> escaping entirely".

What's the use case for this?

Cheers,

Adam
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