[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] suboption escaping

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 06:06:02PM +0300, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:00:30AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:49:07AM +0300, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:14:07AM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:33:14PM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> > > > > I'm still in favor of backslash escaping.  I'm going to post a new patch
> > > > > with documentation in a new thread.  I've also modified the code to
> > > > > address most of the issues you brought up with the first patch.
> > > > 
> > > > I actually just disliked the strtokex function, it seemed overkill for
> > > > me. Can't you just extend my patch for backslash escaping?
> > > > I think the quotes should stay in, since they can be included in the
> > > > subopt parser, the backslash escapig can't.
> > > 
> > > I actually dislike ALL this escaping stuff, escaping should be purely up to 
> > > the shell, not the program :/ which is why i'm not sure i'm so in favor of 
> > > the whole sub opt thing..
> > 
> > Huh? You're smoking crack.. there's no way this can be up to the
> > shell.
> 
> What I mean is, options should be seperated by argv[], not by string 
> manipulation...

But what if the strings can't be separate options, e.g. if they're an
argument to a filter?? Or a vo..??

Rich