0000449: incrontab(1) mangles comments in incrontab(5)

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0000449

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2010-05-21 00:57

2010-06-05 23:46

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kolter

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luk

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normal

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major

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always

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Summary

0000449: incrontab(1) mangles comments in incrontab(5)

Description

incrontab(1) mangles comments in incrontab(5): it changes the first word on every comment line to "0". For example, if I run incrontab and create a file with the following comment lines:

# Only put 1 space between fields 2 and 3! Additional whitespace will be
# assumed to be part of field 3, causing the command to fail!

then incrontab -l shows that I have the following incrontab file:

# 0 put 1 space between fields 2 and 3! Additional whitespace will be
# 0 to be part of field 3, causing the command to fail!

To clarify, this doesn't just matter because of comments, although they're important. It also means that I can't temporarily disable a line by commenting it out-- if I do, then incrontab will replace the path entry by a 0.

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This bug report is a copy of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563700 [^]

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allow comments in incrontab files

Notes
(0000444) luk (administrator) 2010-02-10 20:49	This is strange behavior. It should currently remove all comments (although this is not optimal) as of 0000173. In any case the manipulation with incrontab files must be changed in the future versions.

(0000463) luk (administrator) 2010-06-05 23:46	More things to consider: 1. If an invalid mask symbol is present it is currently removed. 2. If there is no symbol it is replace by zero ("0"). These things are undocumented and should be resolved or (at least) noted in the manual pages.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-01-31 23:32	kolter	New Issue
2010-02-10 20:46	luk	Status	new => assigned
2010-02-10 20:46	luk	Assigned To	=> luk
2010-02-10 20:47	luk	Relationship added	related to 0000173
2010-02-10 20:49	luk	Note Added: 0000444
2010-06-05 23:46	luk	Note Added: 0000463