Re: [PATCH] md5sum, sha*sum: only escape file names containing newlines

[Pádraig Brady]

On 11/01/2013 05:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/01/2013 10:29 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> This should be fully backwards and forwards compatible with previous
>> escaping, since we'll never have a file name at the start of a line,
>> thus '\' at the start of a line always means the file name is escaped.
> 
> This feels like it could be a step in the wrong direction to me.  I've
> been arguing that we need to escape file names containing \r, for the
> sake of people that transmit files with \r\n line endings compared to
> files that contain a literal trailing \r.

I can see the need for that yes.

Though I don't think avoiding the redundant escaping
of file names with just '\' characters would impact that?

thanks,
Pádraig.