nixos: add functions and documentation for escaping systemd Exec* directives#154113
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Should we maybe have .splitlines() here, to ensure it does not match e.g. semicolon in the middle of a line?
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that sounds sensible. there's a slight catch that toString for floats produces six fractional digits where one might expect less, but that's easy enough to work around.
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it's really easy to accidentally write the wrong systemd Exec* directive, ones
that works most of the time but fails when users include systemd metacharacters
in arguments that are interpolated into an Exec* directive. add a few functions
analogous to escapeShellArg{,s} and some documentation on how and when to use them.
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Motivation for this change
we've seen a couple new modules recently that came with subtly wrong
ExecStartdirectives. while they'd work most of the time they could fail in surprising ways if users were to add a%or$in a module argument.to make it easier to avoid such problems this adds a few escaping functions specifically for systemd Exec directives and some documentation on how to use them.
Things done
sandbox = trueset innix.conf? (See Nix manual)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage./result/bin/)nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.shto update generated release notes