Remove unused decodeOctalEscaped

Besides being unused, this function has a bug that it will incorrectly
decode the path component Ubuntu\04016.04.2\040LTS\040amd64 as
"Ubuntu.04.2 LTS amd64" instead of "Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS amd64".

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index 35909c8d5b31..7340ca6c7478 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -349,12 +349,6 @@ bool hasSuffix(const string & s, const string & suffix);
 std::string toLower(const std::string & s);
 
 
-/* Escape a string that contains octal-encoded escape codes such as
-   used in /etc/fstab and /proc/mounts (e.g. "foo\040bar" decodes to
-   "foo bar"). */
-string decodeOctalEscaped(const string & s);
-
-
 /* Exception handling in destructors: print an error message, then
    ignore the exception. */
 void ignoreException();