Using linelog with "-" in filename results in "--".

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

> On 16 Apr 2015, at 18:24, Chaigneau, Nicolas <nicolas.chaigneau at capgemini.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I'm using 3.0.x with linelog module, with a filename set up as follows:
> 
> filename=${logdir}/RadiusTrace-%{Client-Shortname}-%Y%m%d%H.log
> 
> 
> In clients.conf I have some clients which contain "-" characters.
> When the linelog creates the output file, the "-" are doubled (resulting in "--" in the file name).
> 
> (This is done in function rad_filename_escape from main\util.c)
> 
> 
> 
> Is there a way to prevent this ?

The escape function produces POSIX fully portable filenames, whilst allowing recovery of the input text.

It should be possible to modify the escape functions so that hyphen doesn't have another hyphen to escape it, unless the  hyphen in the src string was before a disallowed character.

Thinking about it, that's probably a good idea.

-Arran

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS development team

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