Updated documentation re: no equals sign and single quote

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6923428563464ed8e80adc1165b71ade452f9827..414ec679ec329189a90e5656581089878515bfab 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
        Fix check_ircd binding to wrong interface (#668778)
        Add proxy-authorization option to check_http (Marcel Kuiper - #1323230, Bryan Irvine - #2863925)
        WARNINGS
-       Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign in the label
+       Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign or
+       single quote in the label
 
 1.4.14 16th September 2009
        check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)

diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index 3567841a89ccf735a33a79deeab134c281f16443..d6c7c075c03ae639b4a0400825d90d8b17f15daa 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -333,10 +333,10 @@
                <orderedlist>
                <listitem><para>space separated list of label/value pairs</para>
                        </listitem>
-               <listitem><para>label can contain any characters</para>
+               <listitem><para>label can contain any characters except the equals sign or single quote (')</para>
                        </listitem>
                <listitem><para>the single quotes for the label are optional. Required if 
-                       spaces, = or ' are in the label</para>
+                       spaces are in the label</para>
                        </listitem>
                <listitem><para>label length is arbitrary, but ideally the first 19 characters
                        are unique (due to a limitation in RRD). Be aware of a limitation in the