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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=V1LU xhXd7ELi63J3dMqGlclbRcEbBjpTDZGx47rw0yPqeOAs9lgYuECS7JTYOt3VCPle VJfByY4HC+6agSsSiD7BGdeMVwDPP6wXnZI3/LpdvsfzvrlqfzEolc3AbkxRNXVt IKkPYG0k9UVbChaXb/UypsTgGuv/GC/qadPc2e8= 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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type; s=default; bh=Fv+sC1Y6XY bhMJPHEnnstbWTv1A=; b=aG00u0yw7o7/NHHJNMqFWrKja2sKzuIoNS67SOB88m UMKEzMRkeaOC/Wq0LYtE0fQtec7Mkf0xKSgBWxTKZG+u9IC/QXKxHE5ngdsbBqgM VuZYrfwIetgculEwfMpUSSQgJvNFB+dq/jMF1Z42VnDVbUK7siTZhebwRb3c06aG Q= 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=blake, Blake, H*i:sk:871t6gx, H*MI:sk:871t6gx X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Subject: Re: strange behaviour of 'ls' To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <000001d1909e$da5b8b00$8f12a100$@talktalk.net> <72gcgbtd8mfco3n6neb2srnl9fv43s5et4 AT 4ax DOT com> <57077EB6 DOT 1090306 AT towo DOT net> <871t6gx7ae DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> From: Eric Blake Openpgp: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Message-ID: <57081627.4030508@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 14:35:51 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <871t6gx7ae.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vIal7Gr2hBQknhlpmVl2HDuh87w8CPbJf" X-IsSubscribed: yes --vIal7Gr2hBQknhlpmVl2HDuh87w8CPbJf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/08/2016 12:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Thomas Wolff writes: >> Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isn=E2=80=99t recogni= zed in >> the current encoding (and grep doesn=E2=80=99t even provide an environme= nt >> variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern >> upstream changes are a nuisance. >=20 > You are barking up the wrng tree, please take that upstream. >=20 >> For ls at least, it can be fixed with the environment variable >> QUOTING_STYLE but that isn=E2=80=99t even mentioned in the manual page!%= =C2=A7=E2=86=AF >> =E2=80=93 Poor old Unix tradition fades away. >> >> What about adding >> export QUOTING_STYLE=3Dliteral >> to /etc/profile as a fix? >=20 > No, but you're free to do whatever you wish in /etc/profile.d (or lobby > the coreutils maintiner to provide it with the package, although I'd > suggest that it shouldn't get installed by default). If upstream makes it easy to install such an example profile, I'll likewise make it easy to install in cygwin. Otherwise, I don't see any reason to go out of my way to make cygwin diverge from upstream. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --vIal7Gr2hBQknhlpmVl2HDuh87w8CPbJf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXCBYnAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqSqIH/3wKj94qepp6oFjtLIpqoPdI 5J09pRpjRmuCO3JI1GlSZn3PMG/s1m75QjEJplkXvr83/eOyZL3oidTDD/rqeP+r NQhH7TtJOz91wV3PUvXiGCcP+6JYBHsoIDmra+AG8lTU/9i1VHvh0aA2acAw9aQk 10yXUZS41kkhKW9DHOoFls8Y0zS6JLB8Yh3QmwBSbY/A0JxM3Y9UGYE2DuVG+Gwy s4p88WPj6oUhicpdd8B8jNkN4K0IrJIiVdwGvhI7kw9bTQXUTgtOyAPY/Wsxvs4r T7FgLdeMCYI5PJJ2C5PcpVG5L/wii62GxrRDes06F76K1a1BGvYjgs4B6ABZtoI= =9cah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vIal7Gr2hBQknhlpmVl2HDuh87w8CPbJf--