X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:40:38 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Svend Sorensen cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.19: pdksh 5.2.14-3 tab-complete and shell metacharacters In-Reply-To: <7ff9c2a10601261111m49ab467enfa427a546e269132@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <7ff9c2a10601261111m49ab467enfa427a546e269132@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Disposition: INLINE Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 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. Igor Peshansky, volunteer PDKSH maintainer for Cygwin -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/