#563700 incrontab(1) mangles comments in incrontab(5)

Package:
incron
Source:
incron
Description:
cron-like daemon which handles filesystem events
Submitter:
Andrew Schulman
Date:
2015-03-29 07:09:08 UTC
Severity:
normal
#563700#5
Date:
2010-01-04 18:01:12 UTC
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To:
incrontab(1) mangles comments in incrontab(5): it changes the first
word on every comment line to "0".  For example, if I run incrontab
and create a file with the following comment lines:

# Only put 1 space between fields 2 and 3!  Additional whitespace will be
# assumed to be part of field 3, causing the command to fail!

then incrontab -l shows that I have the following incrontab file:

# 0 put 1 space between fields 2 and 3!  Additional whitespace will be
# 0 to be part of field 3, causing the command to fail!
#563700#10
Date:
2010-01-04 18:08:00 UTC
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To:
To clarify, this doesn't just matter because of comments, although they're
important.  It also means that I can't temporarily disable a line by
commenting it out-- if I do, then incrontab will replace the path entry by
a 0.

Thanks,
Andrew.