snmpwalk not working with a community name with a backslash in it

I'm trying to determine if a community name or userid can contain a backslash. I've created a v2c SNMP community name called "testing\" and I cannot get it to work with an snmpwalk (I tried with version 5.7.3 on Linux).  I realize that backslash is an escape character so I made sure to account for that in the command line. 

snmpwalk -m ALL -M . -v 2c -c testing\\ 10.10.11.1 sysUpTime
Timeout: No Response from 10.10.11.1

I did a trace to verify that "testing\" is sent via the network.

sudo tcpdump -n -vvv -i eth0 port 161
tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
19:02:11.223073 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 26922, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 72)
    10.10.11.2.44029 > 10.10.11.1.161: [bad udp cksum 0x2a5c -> 0x6912!]  { SNMPv2c C=testing\ { GetNextRequest(27) R=1008098937  .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3 } } 
19:02:12.224149 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 26989, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 72)
    10.10.11.2.44029 > 10.10.11.1.161: [bad udp cksum 0x2a5c -> 0x6912!]  { SNMPv2c C=testing\ { GetNextRequest(27) R=1008098937  .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3 } } 
19:02:13.225253 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 27002, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 72)

I even modified the code in netsnmp_udp_getSecName() to verify that "testing\" was being compared and both sides of the comparison had that value.

If I remove the backslash it works fine. Is backslash not allowed or is this a bug?


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