X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to :references:message-id; q=dns; s=default; b=cXEp94C/KbQ1ZtKPHxB8 C/7vK79VMychPjVRcPanHL0T19Wt9ob5S2kZt4O5gaZMCVMiy1N8fiKL3LKa53gJ kOWnRSi/J/u820injH7dca3tES8bz0GmZwBGbkfogZ4U+AeqOop5xf6m59/QQlqN D3gJnP2ikaR/nbu8Ig0nlFI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to :references:message-id; s=default; bh=+X9XAguaGoKusGenCUSOiI2PmT E=; b=ENrH4qRnbsNuqaMo/6qiJ63apqpc2cZ+BNHHu3B8KJGWpFUOYBTeEacVNK zUclbNADP4cQgiUKjbkb3jCSaPjgox/bzEcOIoD1IdX8osUQDUHOMYU5+XtlNf0x X0+XZIcsD7CysGsyK+2R4UiX+LG2Qet9OVS2+oFTU/bqsjCMc= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=incog, gui, H*f:sk:00a1ad6, GUI X-HELO: lb2-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 13:55:23 +0100 From: Houder To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day In-Reply-To: <20151220121855.GB4034@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20151216164758 DOT GL3507 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <22132 DOT 1234 DOT 560000 DOT 81409 AT woitok DOT gmail DOT com> <567693DC DOT 1090507 AT dwalin DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk> <00a1ad6ccca67af73db1596ff3f7e9f1 AT xs4all DOT nl> <20151220121855 DOT GB4034 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Message-ID: <43e70731a9597802c4101612ac7bb1dd@xs4all.nl> X-Sender: houder AT xs4all DOT nl (RRlm7/1lpr41HA6wXS0g5Q==) User-Agent: XS4ALL Webmail X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 :-))) 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