/etc/exports continue line

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

I've been using \ to continue a line in /etc/exports, and ran into an
odd problem -- if you accidentally hit the TAB key after the continue
line and save, the entry becomes invalid. Since the TAB key is
invisible, it can be difficult to figure out what's going on.

I reported it as Debian bug 418491 to nfs-kernel-server, and the
maintainer responded by saying \ isn't a valid continue character.
Comments? I routinely do this sort of thing:

/spare \
        165.97.21.130(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,async) \
        165.97.21.132(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
        165.97.21.133(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
        165.97.21.134(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
        165.97.21.135(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,async) \
        165.97.21.136(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
        165.97.85.112(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
        165.97.85.117(rw,no_subtree_check,async)

A lot easier to maintain that a single line. Is there an alternative way
to continue the line?

Cheers,
Dave


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Bug#418491: nfs-kernel-server: Lots of misleading error
messages if there's a TAB in /etc/exports
Date: 	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:06:27 +0200
From: 	Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: 	David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>, 418491-done@bugs.debian.org
References:
<20070410023140.32254.14380.reportbug@localhost.localdomain>
<20070411002242.GD8811@uio.no>



On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:22:42AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>> Try this: edit /etc/exports and add a TAB after a \ (continue line). For instance, mine uses
> \ isn't supported as continue line, TTBOMK.

Thus, closing this one; forgot to do so last time.

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