Re: [PATCH] Treat single space table entry names specially, i.e., reject them

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 09:06:07PM +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> 
> some tables used with "genget()" use table entries with a single space
> character as entry name for special purposes, i.e., as empty lines or
> comment lines.  Thus an entry with name " " is not intended as a valid
> table entry, but "genget()" does not treat those entries differently from
> valid antries.  It should instead reject any attempt to get the entry to
> the name " ".

Thinking a bit more about this I'd say that genget() should not enforce
such a table key restriction.

> [...]
> The attached patch "inetutils-libtelnet-genget-no_space_command.patch"
> implements this.

Please ignore this patch.

Thanks,
Erik