From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: [PATCH] docs: document handling of metacharacter escape in xl disk format Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:02:37 +0000 Message-ID: <1455793357-5712-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: Jim Fehlig , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Cc: Jim Fehlig --- docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt b/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt index 6a2118d..a03ad10 100644 --- a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt +++ b/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt @@ -48,6 +48,24 @@ positionally or explicitly). Whitespace may appear before each parameter and will be ignored. +Metacharacters in a may be escaped using a backslash: + + Escape HEX Description + ------ --- ----------- + \a 0x07 Bell + \b 0x08 Backspace + \t 0x09 Horizontal Tab + \n 0x0A New Line / Line Feed + \f 0x0C Form Feed + \r 0x0D Carriage Return + \v 0x0B Vertical Tab + \" 0x22 A literal double quote + \' 0x27 A literal single quote + \\ 0x5C A literal backslash + \xXX Character XX in hexadecimal + \OOO Character OOO in octal + +Any other character following a backslash is an error. ===================== POSITIONAL PARAMETERS -- 2.1.4