Line continuations not working as expected

Matthew Richardson matthew-ln at itconsult.co.uk
Sat Feb 9 17:06:57 CET 2008


>From: Ethan Galstad <nagios at nagios.org>
>To: Nagios Developers List <nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>Cc: 
>Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:36:03 -0600
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Line continuations not working as expected

>>> Thanks for the note Matthew - a patch will be in CVS momentarily to
>>> handle the CR/LF scenario...
>> 
>> I fear that you have made this worse in 3.0rc2 - indeed I think you may
>> have broken it completely...  :-(
>> 
>> I have just upgraded a box with a working config from 3.0rc1 to 3.0rc2 and
>> the service refused to start with a configuration fault.  The fault
>> occurred where I had configs with "\" over multiple lines.
>> 
>> The particular file had Unix line ends.  I have tried with Windows line
>> ends, and it still did not work.
>> 
>> Obviously making one long line fixed the problem, but is not very
>> readable...
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> Matthew
>
>Arggg..  I must have ADD.  Patch will be in CVS momentarily...

This is confirmed as fixed with Windows line ends in the CVS as downloaded
earlier today.

Thanks very much.

Best wishes,
Matthew

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