From 2cd4a8065ac2bb6bf3708d681de56bbe1984c3ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Will Woods <wwoods@redhat.com>

Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:48:08 -0400

Subject: [PATCH] dracut-lib.sh: fix dropped backslashes in CMDLINE

The "read" shell builtin consumes backslashes, which is a problem if

your root device is something like "LABEL=Fedora\x2016".

Using "read -r" tells the shell to leave backslashes alone.

---

 modules.d/99base/dracut-lib.sh |    4 ++--

 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules.d/99base/dracut-lib.sh b/modules.d/99base/dracut-lib.sh

index 62c3bf5..bc4d7c9 100755

--- a/modules.d/99base/dracut-lib.sh

+++ b/modules.d/99base/dracut-lib.sh

@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ _getcmdline() {

     unset _line

     if [ -z "$CMDLINE" ]; then

         if [ -e /etc/cmdline ]; then

-            while read _line; do

+            while read -r _line; do

                 CMDLINE_ETC="$CMDLINE_ETC $_line";

             done 

         fi

-        read CMDLINE 

+        read -r CMDLINE 

         CMDLINE="$CMDLINE $CMDLINE_ETC"

     fi

 }