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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2015-02-23 10:43:07 -0500
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2015-02-23 10:43:07 -0500
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Clarify that CString bug is output-only
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Read \n \t \r and \0 ... \377 as C escapes.
Treat a backslash followed by any other character as that character.
- Currently, many of the QuotedString instances below are in fact
- CStrings. We intend to fix this in future versions of Tor, and
- document which ones were broken. (See bugtracker ticket #14555
- for a bit more information.)
+ Currently, many of the QuotedString instances below that Tor
+ outputs are in fact CStrings. We intend to fix this in future
+ versions of Tor, and document which ones were broken. (See
+ bugtracker ticket #14555 for a bit more information.)
+
+ Note that this bug exists only in strings generated by Tor for the
+ Tor controller; Tor should parse input QuotedStrings from the
+ controller correctly.
+
2.2. Commands from controller to Tor