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This simple patch allows comments in the middle of a line.

Message ID CAP94=QJwGTmm_cqDYTSivKhb7kBd9RM2TYca0+_7BiSKRQnO8w@mail.gmail.com
State Rejected, archived
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Series This simple patch allows comments in the middle of a line. | expand

Commit Message

Fabiano Furtado July 24, 2022, 10:58 p.m. UTC 
From 4a87185f577d61f51c94e9b158d602460c795330 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabiano Furtado <fabianofurtado <at> gmail <dot> com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 16:44:31 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] As described in
 https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html#_description, "Comments are
 only supported by beginning a line with the hash (#) symbol. Comments cannot
 begin in the middle of a line.". This patch allows comments in the middle of
 a line. Example: LogFile = /tmp/pacman.log#/var/log/pacman.log

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Furtado <fabianofurtado <at> gmail <dot> com>
---
 src/common/ini.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


--
2.37.1

Comments

Chris Down July 25, 2022, 12:54 p.m. UTC | #1 
Hi Fabiano,

Fabiano Furtado writes:
>From 4a87185f577d61f51c94e9b158d602460c795330 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Fabiano Furtado <fabianofurtado <at> gmail <dot> com>
>Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 16:44:31 -0300
>Subject: [PATCH] As described in
> https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html#_description, "Comments are

Fittingly, this URL shows why...

> only supported by beginning a line with the hash (#) symbol. Comments cannot
> begin in the middle of a line.". This patch allows comments in the middle of
> a line. Example: LogFile = /tmp/pacman.log#/var/log/pacman.log

...this should not be allowed, because octothorpes may be valid values in some 
fields.

In fact that's exactly why it was disallowed in commit 8a19c4a78251 ("ini: only 
recognize comments at beginning of line").

It might be ok to allow it only after whitespace, but since it's already caused 
problems I'd be inclined not to poke the bear again unless there's some 
compelling reason.

Thanks,

Chris
Fabiano Furtado July 25, 2022, 4:14 p.m. UTC | #2 
Hi, Chris!

I didn't know about this commit 8a19c4a78251. Sorry for that.

Indeed, there is no compelling reason to rollback this code. I just
thought this '#' symbol isn't a valid value in some fields.

Thanks!

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 9:54 AM Chris Down wrote:
>
> Hi Fabiano,
>
> Fabiano Furtado writes:
> >From 4a87185f577d61f51c94e9b158d602460c795330 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: Fabiano Furtado <fabianofurtado <at> gmail <dot> com>
> >Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 16:44:31 -0300
> >Subject: [PATCH] As described in
> > https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html#_description, "Comments are
>
> Fittingly, this URL shows why...
>
> > only supported by beginning a line with the hash (#) symbol. Comments cannot
> > begin in the middle of a line.". This patch allows comments in the middle of
> > a line. Example: LogFile = /tmp/pacman.log#/var/log/pacman.log
>
> ...this should not be allowed, because octothorpes may be valid values in some
> fields.
>
> In fact that's exactly why it was disallowed in commit 8a19c4a78251 ("ini: only
> recognize comments at beginning of line").
>
> It might be ok to allow it only after whitespace, but since it's already caused
> problems I'd be inclined not to poke the bear again unless there's some
> compelling reason.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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Patch

diff --git a/src/common/ini.c b/src/common/ini.c
index 410a2843..4d09d844 100644
--- a/src/common/ini.c
+++ b/src/common/ini.c
@@ -60,14 +60,22 @@  int parse_ini(const char *file, ini_parser_fn cb,
void *data)
        }

        while(safe_fgets(line, PATH_MAX, fp)) {
-               char *key, *value;
+               char *key, *value, *comment;
                size_t line_len;

                linenum++;

+               if(line[0] == '#') {
+                       continue;
+               }
+
+               if((comment = strchr(line,'#')) != NULL) {
+                       *comment = '\0';
+               }
+
                line_len = strtrim(line);

-               if(line_len == 0 || line[0] == '#') {
+               if(line_len == 0) {
                        continue;
                }