[OpenWrt-Devel] Using "-" in section names

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 07:49:21PM +0200, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yes there is a reason, the initial uci implementation was shell based
> and section names are part of generated variable names which must not
> contain dashes.

So, it shouldn't be necessary with the C implementation?

> Simply replacing dashes with underscores is not possible either as this
> would lead to ambiguous results.

Yes, I've got exactly this problem: the name of a section is supposed to
be a physical interface name.  But both "-" and "_" are valid characters
in the name of an interface on Linux, so it would be ambiguous to convert
one to the other.

> ~ Jow
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