> Gerd Mueller wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I thought of writing a patch to quote semicolons with a backslash
> > or even better to convert hex to ascii (like \xEB for a semicolon).
> > It was very simple but did not work with NRPE
. NRPE has its own> > nasty characters. So escaping inside nagios config will not be
> > enough
. So I am thinking of "global" solution of escaping> > nasty characters inside nagios.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anybody any suggestion about a better pattern to escape nasty
> > characters?
> >
>
> Don't escape them at all, but parse out the string using shell-style
> parsing and run the command with execve(2). This will also save us the
> problem of the macro_x locking race that can sometimes occur, making
> Nagios 2 sometimes crash on FreeBSD.
Either I missed an earlier post, or I've been drinking funny juice
lately. I wasn't aware there was a race condition in the macro
processing. Can you provide more details?
>
> This will do funny things for people who use shell-variables in
> command-lines though, so it's a double-edged sword, but imo sharper on
> the good side.
>
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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