Re: pathnames containing spaces

[Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins dot net>]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 00:08, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Good luck with fixing the white space problems in every process that 
> reads arguments and uses white space as a delimiter of some sort.

Earnie has a very good point - GNU Arch faces the same problem with a
limited set of tools - patch, diff and tar. (Plus it's own internals of
course). We've come to the conclusion that whilst fixing
spaces-in-filenames, it would be sensible to address unicode glyphs at
the same time - so as to prevent auditing code twice (once to escape
spaces, once to espace unicode).

It's a big project no matter how you look at it... 

Rob
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