Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] tc/lexer: let quotes actually start strings

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:09:34 -0800

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:53:46 +0100
Wolfgang Bumiller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The lexer will go with the longest match, so previously
> the starting double quotes of a string would be swallowed by
> the [^ \t\r\n()]+ pattern leaving the user no way to
> actually use strings with escape sequences.
> Fix this by not allowing this case to start with double
> quotes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Bumiller <[email-masked]>
> ---

This is the same patch you posted earlier. It looked fine, just that
it needs some time for people on mailing list to review.