Package: memcached
Version: 1.4.13-0.1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream patch
Dear Maintainer,
This bug was originally reported in Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memcached/+bug/1005821
it was also forwarded upstream:
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=283
--- quoting original bug ---
memcached daemon has an option to specify custom character as the
delimeter between key prefixes and IDs. # character cannot be used because
of limitation of /usr/share/memcached/scripts/start-memcached. This
startup script parses /etc/memcached_*.conf files and treats every line
with # sign as a comment, which is wrong in case of line like below: -D #
Simple patch attached. I know it's not perfect but it works :)
--- end quoting ---
The patch is sound, requiring that # be the *first* non-whitespace
character in the line to be considered a comment.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers precise-updates
APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500,
'precise'), (100, 'precise-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- /usr/share/memcached/scripts/start-memcached 2012-04-04 18:49:46.000000000 +0200
+++ start-memcached 2012-05-29 11:13:28.181568485 +0200
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
foreach my $line (<$etchandle>)
{
$line ||= "";
- $line =~ s/\#.*//g;
+ $line =~ s/^\s*\#.*//g;
$line =~ s/\s+$//g;
$line =~ s/^\s+//g;
next unless $line;
