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diff --git a/lib/mountlist.c b/lib/mountlist.c
index c2c77b3f0a620a3935127a09f5c216dc3806e8c3..760ef08e50cdd67e77a51652179ff5d373d834e0 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/mountlist.c
+++ b/lib/mountlist.c
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ xatoi (char *cp)
 /* Convert, in place, each unambiguous `\040' sequence in the NUL-terminated
    string, STR, to a single space.  `unambiguous' means that it must not be
    immediately preceded by an odd number of backslash characters.  */
+/* FIXME: should any other backslash-escaped sequences be translated?  */
+/* FIXME: is the backslash counting necessary?  */
 
 static void
 translate_040_to_space (char *str)
@@ -180,10 +182,10 @@ translate_040_to_space (char *str)
          continue;
        }
 
-      /* We found an unambiguous `\040'.  Replace it with a space
-        and move everything following it back by 3 bytes.
-         The source and destination regions may overlap, so we have
-        to use memmove.  */
+      /* We found an unambiguous `\040'.  Replace the `/' with a space
+        and shift the string after `040' so that it starts where the
+        first zero was.  The source and destination regions may overlap,
+        so use memmove.  */
       *backslash = ' ';
       str = backslash + 1;
       /* Be sure to copy the trailing NUL byte, too.  */