[syslog-ng] escaping \[ not respected

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:12 +1300, chris packham wrote:
> One option would be to use the kind quotes ' vs " to determine whether to 
> escape or not. I believe bash (and maybe perl) does this kind of thing when 
> handling strings.

Yeah, the problem is with compatibility, ' and " style quoting has been
working this way for about a decade, changing that would break a lot of
configurations.

I should have made this decision back then, but changing this now is not
really possible I think.

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Bazsi