Regarding bug 435682

[Alexander]

   It definitely breaks handling of 0xFF and apostrophe, but in case of 3
year old feature request it's better than nothing :)
Obviously, it's better to use something like escape sequences, but the patch
was something like a proof-of-concept.

2011/10/21 Miloslav Trmac <mitr at redhat.com>

> > Here's a patch for version 2.1.3 which solves bug 435682 (
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435682 ).
> > Patched auditctl allows to specify files having spaces in ther names
> > - just surround a filename with apostrophes.
>
> This patch also arbitrarily breaks handling of apostrophes and \xFF
> characters in filenames; it probably is a marginal improvement, but any
> change to the format should IMHO start with an explicit and consistent
> specification of how quoting is supposed to work in audit.rules, and then
> implementing exactly that.
>
> If we do have to change the file format to support spaces, let's do it, but
> let's also make sure that we don't need to change it again soon to fix
> different artifacts of the parser implementation.
>    Mirek
>
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