Leading space in continuation lines

Ethan Galstad egalstad at nagios.org
Wed Jun 17 06:19:27 CEST 2009


Holger Weiss wrote:
> * Gerhard Lausser <Gerhard.Lausser at consol.de> [2009-05-02 13:49]:
>> I attached a patch for base/utils.c(mmap_fgets_multiline) (v3.10) which cuts
>> off leading white space from continuation lines.
> 
> Of course, this breaks configurations which do stuff like
> 
> 	command_line $USER1$/check_foo one\
> 	                               two
> 
> and expect to get this parsed with white space between "one" and "two".
> However, this incompatibility is probably negligible, and I guess most
> users would prefer if leading white space was stripped from continuation
> lines.
> 
> So, I'd appreciate if the patch was committed.  I've attached a version
> of the diff which updates cgi/cgiutils.c:mmap_fgets_multiline(), too,
> and which simplifies the code a bit.
> 
> Holger
> 

Thanks - patch is in CVS.


- Ethan Galstad

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