Fix an issue with using UpdateConfig (manager action) where escaped semicolons

in a config would be converted to just semicolons (\; to ;)

Issue 9938


git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4@78180 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3

main/config.c

@@ -862,9 +862,8 @@ static struct ast_config *config_text_file_load(const char *database, const char
 				
 				while ((comment_p = strchr(new_buf, COMMENT_META))) {
 					if ((comment_p > new_buf) && (*(comment_p-1) == '\\')) {
-						/* Yuck, gotta memmove */
-						memmove(comment_p - 1, comment_p, strlen(comment_p) + 1);
-						new_buf = comment_p;
+						/* Escaped semicolons aren't comments. */
+						new_buf = comment_p + 1;
 					} else if(comment_p[1] == COMMENT_TAG && comment_p[2] == COMMENT_TAG && (comment_p[3] != '-')) {
 						/* Meta-Comment start detected ";--" */
 						if (comment < MAX_NESTED_COMMENTS) {