-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Aaron Peterson on 12/6/2008 2:16 AM: > Wow, You guys seem to really care. > > 6.10 is the version of du that I'm using. (Ubuntu Ibex)
6.12 is the latest stable version, and 7.0 is also available for testing. > So, I understand that newline /CR is a complicated way to delimit > lists lists because of system variations, but did somebody tackle > this by determining what the (possibly multi byte) newline sequence is > and make a --from-files work? We tend not to worry too much about CR as line terminators, because that is not the POSIX way. The coreutils are not consistent on how CR is handled. On the other hand, we are not adverse to easy-to-maintain patches that makes life more portable on platforms with CR problems (for example, I've had a low-priority item on my todo list to escape CR as \r in md5sum output). But back to your question about recognizing newline-separated lists: using newline to delimit file lists is inherently insecure, because newline is a valid filename character. Someone can intentionally name a file $'/tmp/oops\n/bin', and if a careless sysadmin does 'ls /tmp | xargs rm -rf', then they just nuked /bin. We don't have any plans on adding --from-files that takes newline separated entries, because there is no point adding security holes. The only valid option is - --from-files0 (although, the way getopt works, you can use unambiguous abbreviations, so --from-files is shorthand for --from-files0, meaning that you still plan on using NUL terminators rather than newline terminators). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk6lREACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBJ+wCgtBSykq30IYgIncRICpxUk/g8 bngAn1XrEv4EiZkcwsbxzkAiMRp8nPj2 =ufvP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
