[libvirt] [PATCH 12/30] storagefile: Fix backing format \0 check

Christophe de Dinechin dinechin at redhat.com
Thu Oct 17 09:29:30 UTC 2019


Daniel Henrique Barboza writes:

> On 10/7/19 6:49 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> >From qemu.git docs/interop/qcow2.txt
>
> Here's the '>' again. I think this is something you're using to cite an
> external source in the commit message. Is that it?

No, that is the way email "protects" lines that begin with "From". You
rarely see it nowadays because the mail itself is encoded, but if you
use plain text and send in ASCII, this will happen.

See page 78 of "The Unix Haters Handbook" [1] for details

[1] https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

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Cheers,
Christophe de Dinechin (IRC c3d)




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