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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2012-09-13 12:09:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2012-09-13 12:09:23 +0200 |
| commit | b32060e2ed078a232dcda723ed7599463e40eb85 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ec59e11175c449abb3f0cfab3240b8932b25452 /doc/v6compatibility.html | |
| parent | 70ee0f5b2e580b75782c039c5bb9d014a81195f4 (diff) | |
| parent | 11910c59138332a884ed753401afdd84feeb1832 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'v6-stable' into v6-devel
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diff --git a/doc/v6compatibility.html b/doc/v6compatibility.html index eec0784b..edb6dedf 100644 --- a/doc/v6compatibility.html +++ b/doc/v6compatibility.html @@ -181,6 +181,15 @@ As you see, here you may include spaces between user names. so it is a wise decision to change config files at least to the legacy format (with ":omusrmsg:" in front of the name). +<h2>Escape Sequences in Script-Based Filters<h2> +<p>In v5, escape sequences were very simplistic. Inside a string, "\x" meant +"x" with x being any character. This has been changed so that the usual set of +escapes is supported, must importantly "\n", "\t", "\xhh" (with hh being hex digits) +and "\ooo" with (o being octal digits). So if one of these sequences was used +previously, results are obviously different. However, that should not create any +real problems, because it is hard to envision why someone should have done that +(why write "\n" when you can also write "n"?). +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- <p>[<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>] [<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog site</a>]</p> <p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog</a> project.<br> |