list separator in config entries

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Mon Oct 8 20:45:43 BST 2007


On 08.10.07 14:20:13, Thomas Braxton wrote:
> On 10/8/07, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 08.10.07 12:27:57, Thomas Braxton wrote:
> > > I know what was being pondered on this thread, but if I don't understand
> > > what you think is broken then I can't fix it can I?
> >
> > Exactly what is tested in the test. KConfig doesn't properly store a
> > list of strings if one of the strings has a \ at the end. I'm at the
> > moment not sure wether reading or writing or both are broken for this,
> > i.e. wether it doesn't escape the backslash or doesn't realize that this
> > is not an escaped list-separator but in fact a list entry ending in a
> > backslash and a list separator afterwards.
> 
> does this work in KDE3?

Yes it does, so in fact this is a regression that absolutely needs
fixing.

So the rest of the discussion is moot anyway. 

Andreas

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