MySQL Bugs: #5817: MA doesn't properly escape windows directory seperators

Bug #5817	MA doesn't properly escape windows directory seperators
Submitted:	30 Sep 2004 0:38	Modified:	8 Oct 2004 9:24
Reporter:	Harrison Fisk	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Administrator	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	1.0.13	OS:	Windows (Windows)
Assigned to:	Michael G. Zinner	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
When you specify a path using the windows directory seperators, MA doesn't escape the neccesary characters it order to make the path work the way one would expect.  This causes some of the options to have weird filenames.

From the manual:

On Windows, if an option value represents a pathname, you should specify the value using `/' rather than `\' as the pathname separator. If you use `\', you must double it as `\\', because `\' is the escape character in MySQL.

So MA should either turn the \ into / or into \\.

How to repeat:
1.  Run MA, and go to Startup Variables.
2.  Setup a log file, such as Slow Query Log.
3.  Specify an option such as C:\mysql\slow_query.log
4.  Notice that MA puts it in the config file as: slow_query_log = C:\mysql\slow_query.log
5.  Restart the service and notice that the file is really created as "C:\mysql low_query.log" which isn' what you intended.

Suggested fix:
Make MA escape the \ when neccesary in path names.

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