Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/30/12:25:57
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted.
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Svend Sorensen wrote:
> On 1/30/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX> wrote:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
> > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Svend Sorensen wrote:
> >
> > > When I use pdksh to expand the name of a file with spaces or other
> > > shell metachars in it, the filename is expanded without escaping the
> > > metacharacters.
> >
> > Thanks for the report. I've been able to reproduce this. There's an
> > upstream patch that fixes the issue, and I'm currently working on
> > integrating that and other patches into the build to produce a new
> > release (but no ETA yet).
> >
> > > The pdksh version strings are identical.
> >
> > This is unfortunate. What is the patchlevel shown for the pdksh
> > package on NetBSD?
> >
> > FWIW, I will include the full list of patches in the README for the
> > new release.
>
> The NetBSD system I tested has pdksh-5.2.14nb1 installed. There are
> two patches in pkgsrc, one which removes a Makefile check for pdksh in
> the /etc/shells file, and one which removes a declaration of errorno.
> Other than that, it uses the vanilla pdksh-5.2.14.tar.gz sources.
Hmm, this is extremely surprising, as 5.2.14 doesn't contain any code to
quote shell metacharacters on tab completion. Are you sure those are
vanilla sources? I know OpenBSD uses its own CVS repository for PDKSH --
does NetBSD do this too? Can you compare the tarball with
<ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/pdksh/pdksh-5.2.14.tar.gz>?
> I have attached the patches from pkgsrc.
These patches don't seem to do anything interesting.
The next release of PDKSH on Cygwin will be built with a metacharacter
quoting patch (from Debian). I'd still like to investigate this to see
why it works for you on NetBSD without that patch...
Igor
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