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| Date: | Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:31:16 +0100 |
| From: | Houder <houder AT xs4all DOT nl> |
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| Subject: | Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day |
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On 2015-12-20 14:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 20 13:55, Houder wrote: >> On 2015-12-20 13:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >On Dec 20 12:50, incog wrote: >> >>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 >> > >> >Dunno about you, but I have lots of files with spaces in them on Linux, >> >especially files connected with GUI stuff, themes, etc. >> >> :-) Oh dear, must be my age ... I never create files with spaces in >> them >> ... I like to keep things simple, just like the guys that created >> Unix. >> >> (sorry, could not stop myself :-))) > > I didn't say I created them myself. Or in same case I did but didn't > intend to. Yes Corinna, I "heard" you the first time ... ... as I said, it must be my __old__ age. Let us stop at that. Regards, Henri > > E.g., in one desktop environment I created a subdir with entries > pointing to a script "foo" called with a machine name as parameter. > I called the entries "foo machine1", "foo machine2", etc. Turns out, > those entries were converted to files called "foo machine1.desktop", > "foo machine2.desktop", ... > > Lots of documents downloaded from the net have spaces in them, unless > you rename every single one of them, which I can't be bothered. > > KDE created a file > ~/.kde/share/apps/desktoptheme/Arezzo/widgets/mock przelacznik > pulpitow.svg > I don't even know the language. > > ~/.config/gnome-boxes/sources/QEMU Session > ~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports > ~/.thunderbird/xyz.default/Mail/Local Folders/Unsent Messages > ~/android-sdk-linux_86/SDK Readme.txt > /usr/local/MegaRAID Storage Manager > /usr/share/cmake/Help/generator/Sublime Text 2.rst > /usr/share/doc/python-setuptools/CHANGES (links).txt > /usr/share/doc/stix-fonts/STIX Font License 2010.pdf > /usr/share/doc/verne-backgrounds-single/CC-BY-SA 3.0 > > Even the git repo has them: > > ~/src/git/t/t4135/add-with backslash.diff > ~/src/git/t/t4135/add-with quote.diff > ~/src/git/t/t4135/add-with spaces.diff > ~/src/git/t/t4135/add-with tab.diff > > > Corinna -- 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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