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authorSebastien Bacher <seb128@ubuntu.com>2020-07-02 11:35:14 +0200
committerSebastien Bacher <seb128@ubuntu.com>2020-07-02 11:52:25 +0200
commitc6c4e39b012d544c1f1ed816686c8ae1599da793 (patch)
tree094d5e07c1d135d0ee67d99e051fd6a9a367a6a4 /shared/systemd/src/basic/escape.h
parent7368e45ff5b3b8b328d55408bcd403e4d6c564d0 (diff)
parentacd7b014c72673f5b0c0b91309e27028886da167 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'salsa/debian/master' into ubuntu/master
Diffstat (limited to 'shared/systemd/src/basic/escape.h')
-rw-r--r--shared/systemd/src/basic/escape.h9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/shared/systemd/src/basic/escape.h b/shared/systemd/src/basic/escape.h
index b8eb137c..0b00b116 100644
--- a/shared/systemd/src/basic/escape.h
+++ b/shared/systemd/src/basic/escape.h
@@ -34,8 +34,13 @@ typedef enum UnescapeFlags {
 } UnescapeFlags;
 
 typedef enum EscapeStyle {
-        ESCAPE_BACKSLASH = 1,
-        ESCAPE_POSIX     = 2,
+        ESCAPE_BACKSLASH         = 1,  /* Add shell quotes ("") so the shell will consider this a single
+                                          argument, possibly multiline. Tabs and newlines are not escaped. */
+        ESCAPE_BACKSLASH_ONELINE = 2,  /* Similar to ESCAPE_BACKSLASH, but always produces a single-line
+                                          string instead. Shell escape sequences are produced for tabs and
+                                          newlines. */
+        ESCAPE_POSIX             = 3,  /* Similar to ESCAPE_BACKSLASH_ONELINE, but uses POSIX shell escape
+                                        * syntax (a string enclosed in $'') instead of plain quotes. */
 } EscapeStyle;
 
 char *cescape(const char *s);