On Friday, October 21, 2011 08:49:30 AM Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> 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
I was thinking of using the same mechanism as shell escaping '\' since this is how
bash would present the path to the user.
-Steve