Re: [PATCH] multipath: rlookup WWIDs with spaces by alias

[Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@gmail.com>]

On lun., 2011-11-14 at 12:34 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:17:54AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > On 11/12/2011 05:54 AM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> >> If a WWID contained spaces, the rlookup code wasn't able to look it up
> >> by its user_friendly_name, since the code was only reading the wwid till
> >> the first space.  It now reads to the end of the line.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski<bmarzins@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>   libmultipath/alias.c |    2 +-
> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> Index: multipath-tools-110412/libmultipath/alias.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- multipath-tools-110412.orig/libmultipath/alias.c
> >> +++ multipath-tools-110412/libmultipath/alias.c
> >> @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ rlookup_binding(FILE *f, char **map_wwid
> >>   		curr_id = scan_devname(alias, NULL); /* TBD: Why this call? */
> >>   		if (curr_id>= id)
> >>   			id = curr_id + 1;
> >> -		wwid = strtok(NULL, " \t");
> >> +		wwid = strtok(NULL, "");
> >>   		if (!wwid){
> >>   			condlog(3,
> >>   				"Ignoring malformed line %u in bindings file",
> >>
> > Please, don't.
> >
> > We keep on changing this one back and forth about every year.
> > (The original patch was by you, back in 2008. Then I changed it back 
> > because it breaks compability with existing configuration files. Now you go 
> > and change it _again_).
> >
> > The real problem here is
> >
> > 'If the WWID contains spaces'
> >
> > The WWID _never_ should contain spaces. I pretty certain we can't handle 
> > WWID with spaces in the bindings file; eg we don't have any quotation 
> > mechanism implemented.
> > So can't we just settle on 'The WWID must not contain spaces' ?
> 
> I suppose that since we're using the "--replace-whitespace" option to
> scsi_id by default, I'm fine with not including this patch.
> 
Reverted.

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