From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug#261181: udev: doesn't notice parentheses in rules file
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:30:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114515052.16740.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913121844.GA6208@wonderland.linux.it>
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 07:51 +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Marco:
> > There is nothing udev can do about this, because %c(1) is a valid device
> > name.
>
> Which shows an ambiguity in the syntax:
>
> '%c{1}' is taken to mean the first word returned from a program. It
> could also be taken for the complete string returned from a program,
> followed by a literal '{1}'. If I want the second alternative, how do
> I write that?
>
> A more regular syntax would be (for example):
>
> %c whole string returned from program
It is that way.
> %3c third word returned from program
This is the length parameter which limit the output to 3 chars.
> Anything after the c is taken literally (except for another %-escape).
I don't understand anything else in this mail, especially not the the
relation with the mail Subject. What is the problem here?
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-26 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 12:18 Bug#261181: udev: doesn't notice parentheses in rules files Marco d'Itri
2005-04-26 5:51 ` Bug#261181: udev: doesn't notice parentheses in rules file Robert Bihlmeyer
2005-04-26 11:30 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-04-28 5:21 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
2005-04-28 6:06 ` Greg KH
2005-04-28 17:26 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
2005-04-28 18:30 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-29 5:28 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
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