It definitely breaks handling of 0xFF and apostrophe, but in case of 3
year old feature request it's better than nothing :)
Obviously, it's better to use something like escape sequences, but the patch
was something like a proof-of-concept.
2011/10/21 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com>
> Here's a patch for version 2.1.3 which solves bug 435682 (
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435682 ).
> Patched auditctl allows to specify files having spaces in ther names
> - just surround a filename with apostrophes.
This patch also arbitrarily breaks handling of apostrophes and \xFF
characters in filenames; it probably is a marginal improvement, but any
change to the format should IMHO start with an explicit and consistent
specification of how quoting is supposed to work in audit.rules, and then
implementing exactly that.
If we do have to change the file format to support spaces, let's do it, but
let's also make sure that we don't need to change it again soon to fix
different artifacts of the parser implementation.
Mirek