escaping semicolon

[Andreas Ericsson]

Gerd Mueller wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 
> I thought of writing a patch to quote semicolons with a backslash
>  or even better to convert hex to ascii (like \xEB for a semicolon).
>  It was very simple but did not work with NRPE :-(. NRPE has its
>  own nasty characters. So escaping inside nagios config will not
>  be enough :-(.  So I am thinking of "global" solution of escaping
>  nasty characters inside nagios. 
> 
> 
> 
> Anybody any suggestion about a better pattern to escape nasty characters?
>  

Don't escape them at all, but parse out the string using shell-style 
parsing and run the command with execve(2). This will also save us the 
problem of the macro_x locking race that can sometimes occur, making 
Nagios 2 sometimes crash on FreeBSD.

This will do funny things for people who use shell-variables in 
command-lines though, so it's a double-edged sword, but imo sharper on 
the good side.

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