On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 08:57:29PM +0000, Eric Backus wrote: >Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri <at> yahoo.it> writes: > >> Don't use filename with a space inside is a WELL KNOWN >> rule of any UNIX system. >> If MS made a stupid decision, we should not follow it. >> >> Regards >> Marco > >It really doesn't matter to me whether cygport supports filenames with >spaces. And it is certainly true that filenames with spaces are relatively >common on Windows systems, but relatively rare on unix systems. > >Nevertheless, there is no rule about this. Actually I believe POSIX allows >filenames to have *any* character in them except a directory separator '/' or >a terminating null '\0'. It is well known that *robust* scripts should use >proper quoting to allow for things like spaces in filenames.
Wow. This horse is starting to get really smelly. And the flies are driving me crazy. cgf -- 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
