Semicolons in plugin output

[Jason Hoos]

Quick question - what is the reason behind the conversion of semicolons 
in plug-in output to colons?  Is it to prevent issues with parsing of 
status.dat?

The reason I ask is that I have some plug-ins that output HTML entities 
(which all end in semicolons of course), and they end up looking a tad 
ugly in the GUI.  I was considering patching my local instance of Nagios 
to handle that, and I wanted to make sure of what dragons I was going to 
run into if I attempted it...

Thanks,
Jason


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