Make sure escape sequence characters in inittab manual page are displ…

…ayed when shown with the "man" command.
pinotree · Sep 16, 2024 · 65cac99 · 65cac99
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diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+sysvinit (3.11) unreleased; urgency=low
+
+    * Some escape characters were included in the inittab manual page, but not displayed
+    by the "man" command because they were not (ironically) properly escaped. This has been
+    fixed.
+
 sysvinit (3.10) released; urgency=low
 
     *  When the user executes "machinectl stop", systemd sends SIGRTMIN+4 to PID 1 

diff --git a/man/inittab.5 b/man/inittab.5
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ in
 .B init
 attempting to launch a shell to interpret the command contained in the process field. 
 The characters which will trigger a shell are: 
-.B ~`!$^&*()=|\{}[];\"'<>?
+.B ~`!$^&*()=|\{}[];\
+"'<>?
 
 On systems which do not have a shell to be launched or which do not wish to
 use a shell to interpret the process field, the process field can be prefixed