Summary:	ASTERISK-20127: [Regression] Config.c config_text_file_load() unescapes semicolons ("\;" -> ";") turning them into comments (corruption) on rewrite of a config file
Reporter:	George Joseph (gjoseph)	Labels:
Date Opened:	2012-07-12 22:32:36	Date Closed:	2014-11-19 14:09:57.000-0600
Priority:	Major	Regression?	Yes
Status:	Closed/Complete	Components:	Core/Configuration
Versions:	10.6.0	Frequency of Occurrence	Constant
Related Issues:	is caused by ASTERISK-17121 Problems with Escaping Characters on SIP Calls in Dial() and Transfer() Applications
Environment:	Fedora 17 x86_64	Attachments:
Description:	My customers who use Asterisk GUI have been complaining that their extensions.conf files are becoming corrupted on configuration saves. Lines such as PAGING_HEADER = Call-Info: \;answer-after=0 are being rewritten as PAGING_HEADER = Call-Info:  ;answer-after=0 On re-read, everything after the now-unescaped semicolon is read as a comment with the result that the file is effectively corrupted (hence severity Major).   This appears to have been broken with v354657 of config.c (which was an attempt to fix issue ASTERISK-17121).  I'm not sure what the commit author's intent was but here's the fragment from main/config.c that caused the issue... {noformat} @@ -1522,23 +1650,25 @@ <snip>                                                /* Escaped semicolons aren't comments. */ -                                               new_buf = comment_p + 1; +                                               new_buf = comment_p; +                                               /* write over the \ and bring the null terminator with us */ +                                               memmove(comment_p - 1, comment_p, strlen(comment_p) + 1); {noformat} Reverting this change restores the correct functionality.
Comments:	By: George Joseph (gjoseph) 2014-11-19 14:09:58.029-0600 Committed in revision 427331