From: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:34:09 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: desktop-file: Justify implementation of is_valid_section_name()
X-Git-Tag: dbus-1.13.8~59^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99580298f305e1e2426f0c016d797a1ff9ea0b79;p=thirdparty%2Fdbus.git

desktop-file: Justify implementation of is_valid_section_name()

Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
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diff --git a/bus/desktop-file.c b/bus/desktop-file.c
index 0b9c57cc8..1c4bb8844 100644
--- a/bus/desktop-file.c
+++ b/bus/desktop-file.c
@@ -378,7 +378,12 @@ parse_comment_or_blank (BusDesktopFileParser *parser)
 static dbus_bool_t
 is_valid_section_name (const char *name)
 {
-  /* 5. Group names may contain all ASCII characters except for control characters and '[' and ']'. */
+  /* 5. Group names may contain all ASCII characters except for control characters and '[' and ']'.
+   *
+   * We don't use isprint() here because it's locale-dependent. ASCII
+   * characters <= 0x1f and 0x7f are control characters, and bytes with
+   * values >= 0x80 aren't ASCII. 0x20 is a space, which we must allow,
+   * not least because DBUS_SERVICE_SECTION contains one. */
 
   while (*name)
     {