[vbox-dev] [PATCH] Fix for Description field in: vboxmanage showvminfo NAME --machinereadable

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Sara,

On Samstag, 18. Februar 2017 00:17:16 CET Sara Golemon wrote:
> I noticed that quotes and backslashes aren't escaped for the VM description
> field when calling `vboxmanage showvminfo NAME --machinereadable`
> 
> The attached simple patch should fix it. ((I'll be honest, I haven't put
> together a build environment to try it, but it's a pretty simple/obvious
> fix.))
> 
> Per https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Contributor_information I'm stating
> that I offer this under the terms of the MIT license.

applied. This patch will be part of the next 5.1.x maintenance release.

Thanks,

Frank
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