X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Cary Jamison" Subject: Re: Strange message from updatedb Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:17:54 -0700 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <82c42b950702261435t4acc4fbctdd2042aee0f609d4@mail.gmail.com> <81BDE334890B7C429EDBA5857465C7565F165F@mcaosx6.ca.mcao.maricopa.gov> <82c42b950702271050w2e807388t6009e795f4041d82@mail.gmail.com> <82c42b950702271238v7ce39db0i86ca282168df222e@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Phil Edwards wrote: > I'm aware of the restrictions, and I will bet long odds that spaces > show up in filenames far more often than colons (or any other > punctuation commonly used as a separator in pathname lists) are used. > I've not changed my opinion that updatedb is behind the times and is > needlessly complicating things for admins, but I also don't expect > that opinion to change anybody else's mind -- this bug has been > reported before, against other distros, and gets rejected because "you > shouldn't use spaces in filenames under Linux," how quaint. This opinion by Linux users has to change if they want Linux to become a more mainstream os. Everyday users are going to use spaces in filenames through the Linux desktop, just as it has become more common on the Windows desktop. <$.02 Cary -- 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/