> On Dec. 16, 2013, 7:28 p.m., Matt Jordan wrote:
> > Well, we can't just undo r354657, which is what this patch does. However we 
> > choose to fix the regression, we shouldn't do so in a way that just causes 
> > another regression by re-opening ASTERISK-17121.
> > 
> > To quote Kinsey from https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1724:
> > 
> > The change here causes that backslash to be removed, but does not create a 
> > real escape system in the config parser.  The biggest complication with a 
> > real escape system would be breaking existing configs everywhere (parsing 
> > \\ as \ and breaking on escaped non-semicolon characters) even though it 
> > would be the "right" way to do things.  It also does not confer any 
> > benefits because there are no other escaped characters that have special 
> > meaning in config files.
> > 
> > I'm not sure we want to go crazy here, but ideally we would have a way to 
> > re-write out a '\' when we write out the config.
> 
> George Joseph wrote:
>     Hmmm.  So the client would write a correctly escaped '\;', the 1724 patch 
> would strip the backslash, then something later on would write it back again? 
>  How would 'something' tell the difference between a ';' that was escaped and 
> needs to be re-escaped and a ';' meant to start a comment?
> 
> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>     Because a semicolon meant to start a comment pushes the comment into a 
> completely different field in the config line structure.

I'm going to discard this patch until I have time to look into it deeper.  


- George


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On Dec. 16, 2013, 6:18 p.m., George Joseph wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 16, 2013, 6:18 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
> 
> 
> Bugs: 20127
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/20127
> 
> 
> Repository: Asterisk
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> This is one I've been patching locally since the middle of last year.   If 
> you retrieve extensions.conf via ami and write it back again (as the Asterisk 
> GUI does), config.c will UNescape semicolons in values causing the rest of 
> the line to be considered a comment.
> 
> Lines such as 
> PAGING_HEADER = Call-Info: \;answer-after=0
> are being rewritten as 
> PAGING_HEADER = Call-Info: ;answer-after=0
> 
> 'answer-after=0' is now considered a comment and PAGING_HEADER is now just 
> 'Call-Info:'.  Since the change to extensions.conf is permanent, this is 
> really a data corruption.
> 
> This is a regression casued by v354657 of config.c.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   branches/12/main/config.c 403992 
> 
> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3074/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> This patch has been in my production systems since July 2012.  
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George Joseph
> 
>

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