GNU bug report logs - #11922
df doesn't handle \n in mount entries appropriately

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:57:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 11922 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 11922 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11922: df doesn't handle \n in mount entries appropriately
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:35:29 -0700

On 07/12/2012 08:28 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> more problematically it would change the output from
> the lib

Ah, sorry, I was talking only about df's output,
independently of how it gets the info from the underlying
library.  Surely the C library API should return a string
with raw newlines etc. in it, leaving it up to 'df' how to
display it?
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