Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40071D7A.1030503@hack.kampbjorn.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:08:42 +0100 From: Hack Kampbjorn Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steven E. Harris" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin References: <000b01c3db63$4c975fe0$580210ac@tcgp.dundee.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Steven E. Harris wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski writes: > > >>FWIW, space is a valid filename character on both Unix and Windows. >>This means that any script that assumes filenames to be space-free >>(and lacking other shell special characters) is, IMO, broken. > > > Keychain has a lot of these space-in-filenames problems. I sent a > corrective patch against keychain 2.0.3 to the two listed maintainers > at the end of November, but received no reply. > If you send the patch to the list I'll look at it and possibly release an updated cygwin package. But keep bugging the gentoo people that I don't have to maintain local patches. -- Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards Hack Kampbjørn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/