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Date: | Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:50:18 +0100 |
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Subject: | Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day |
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On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote: > On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >> and (of all things!) contain blanks, > > * rant mode on * > > What's wrong with blanks? > > The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given > null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to > cope. > > The biggest problem is that there are a lot of sloppily written shell > scripts out there that don't properly quote substitutions or that use > $* > instead of "$@" or that use command substitution where they should be > using pipes and "xargs" and "read". That's the fault of the scripts, > not > the OS/emulation layer. > > * rant mode off * Oh ... you know, I understand Rainer's sentiment ... https://www.cygwin.com/ starts with: CYGWIN Get that ___Linux___ feeling - on Windows ... Regards, Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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