<<< in rhlinux message file - what's up with that?

[AntoniGrzymala]

Hi,

I was recently looking through v20_rhlinuxmsg.xml on our decoder and discovered something interesting. In the most recent version from Live there is a following message definition:

<MESSAGE
id1="003414"
[...]
content="&lt;agent&gt;: pam_vas: Authentication &lt;&lt;&lt;result&gt;&gt; for &lt;&lt;&lt;event_type&gt;&gt; user: &lt;&lt;&lt;username&gt;&gt; account: &lt;&lt;&lt;c_username&gt;&gt
; service: &lt;&lt;&lt;service&gt;&gt; reason: &lt;fld1&gt; Access Control Identifier(NT Name):&lt;&lt;&lt;user_address&gt;&gt;" />

Please take note of the 'content' attribute value which contains the following string (after removing XML entity encoding):

<agent>: pam_vas: Authentication <<<result>> for <<<event_type>> user: <<<username>> account: <<<c_username>> service: <<<service>> reason: <fld1> Access Control Identifier(NT Name):<<<user_address>>

What's up with the triple '<' characters? This doesn't look like proper parser message syntax to me at all. Does anyone know what is it? Is it some different type of field? A bug in the XML?

The parser loads and works OK with these "broken" field definitions.

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mg